Another one of the Japanese Wolfenstein like the posts from the original Photos from Alternate Worlds thread:
The Conclusion of the Germany-Japan War
A statue of der Führer of the Greater German Reich, Adolf Hitler, in Berlin (built in his honour upon the German capture of Moscow in mid-1945).
It would be later torn down by invading Japanese soldiers as the German capital fell in Spring 1948. It would be draped in a partially ripped Nazi flag, attached, via chain, to a Japanese armoured car, and then dragged through the streets of Berlin for the defeated German soldiers and civilians to see. Hitler would be captured by the Japanese as he tried to flee, but rather than be executed the former Führer was whisked away to the far east...to Manchukuo.
Japanese troops march into Berlin, securing the Empire of Japan’s victory over the Third Reich.
German officials and military personnel surrender to Japanese forces.
Wehrmacht officers discuss the surrender terms amongst themselves as dictated by the victorious Japanese General Tadamichi Kuribayashi.
German military officials sign a unconditional surrender, ending the war (out of the camera’s view is president of Germany and Hitler’s designated successor, Karl Dönitz).
Imperial Japanese Army general Tadamichi Kuribayashi, head of the Central European Area Army and famed “Conqueror of Munich and Berlin”, he’d later be promoted to Field Marshal.
Japanese troops celebrate their capture of Berlin, and the end of the Germany-Japan War, at the Anhalter Bahnhof in front of a train.
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Hunting Down the Defeated: The Kempeitai’s Search for Nazis Escapees
Agents of the dreaded Japanese military police, the Kempeitai. Here they are pictured in a train car in Germany waiting for an assignment which will determine who they shall hunt down.
In the immediate aftermath of the conclusion of the Germany-Japan War, many nazi officials would flee Germany for neutral nations such as Cuba, Spain, Switzerland, etc. With the Japanese establishment of a Jewish homeland in the former British Mandate of Palestine (see the State of Israel) after the war, the Kempeitai was tasked with hunting down nazi war criminals* and bringing them to justice** not just for the sake of Israel but also to prevent these Nazi runaways from stirring up trouble in the future.
Reichsmarschall Hermann Göring - captured by Kempeitai agents in Interlaken, Switzerland in 1949.
Göring was given the choice of honourable death via seppuku or to be executed by firing squad...Göring choice neither and committed suicide by taking cyanide.
Reich Minister of Armaments and War Production, Albert Speer.
Speer was handed over to the Kempeitai by the regime of Francisco Franco in 1950. Speer was given the same choice as Göring, he chose seppuku.
Heinrich Himmler, Reichsführer of the Schutzstaffel.
Himmler was extradited by the military regime of Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista to Japan, after Tokyo pressured Havana into giving him up in Summer 1951. He was executed by hanging in Autumn 1951 (a top special adviser to the Kempeitai, Reinhard Heydrich, was present at his former boss’s trial and execution).
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David Ben-Gurion proclaiming the independence of Israel, 1948.
During the 'Germany-Japan War', the Japanese would liberate the concentration camps and extermination camps as they marched into Poland and Germany. With this, and Japan's historical good will to the Jewish people, Japan would set up the State of Israel within the whole of the British Mandate of Palestine. The Sinai Peninsula would later be given to Israel after the 'discovery of evidence of historical Jewish settlement', though the Khedivate of Egypt would protest this move by Japan (not that Japan cared).
Chiune Sugihara. A Japanese diplomat and vice-consul of the Japanese Consulate in Kaunas, Lithuania. Sugihara would also serve as Japan’s first ambassador to the State of Israel.
Sugihara saved thousands of Jews from both the Nazis and Red Army forces. He would be rewarded both the Order of the Sacred Treasure and the Righteous Among the Nations.
Japanese celebrating
Israel’s 60th Independence Day on May 7, 2008.
* = Ironic given Japanese atrocities in East Asia, the American West Coast, Russia, and Germany.
** = With exceptions being Reinhard Heydrich and a couple of others who were deemed useful to the Empire.