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[WorldWarTwo]

This question comes from Ralph Ranzinger, underneath our recent War Against Humanity episode "The Brutal End of the Battle of Manila". Thank you for the question.

[mgway]

World War 2 was wild. In Europe we have Nazis saying “just following orders” in the Pacific we have officers saying “I didn’t give that order”

[salavat]

It is an old Roman Law principle: Silence implies consent, support, or approval. Therefore a commander is responsible for the conduct of his subordinates.

[tpxchallenger]

Yamashita was scapegoated. Apparently he was disliked by the higher command and after his astonishing victory at Singapore he was sidelined to Manchuoko for most of the war. His conviction and execution may have been justice but hundreds of ranking Japanese officers got away with their war crimes.

[nelsonchereta]

"I gave no such orders." "I was only following orders."

[loganb]

Frankly that is a very reasonable standard. You are a commanding officer. It is your job to command and control the actions of your troops. And if your troops go feral on your watch, you are responsible.

[mogaman]

That Yamashita principle even applies if the offending soldier are from another service?
The main culprits of the Manila massacre was the Navy, that disregarded Yamashita's orders to leave Manila.

[MT-tnei]

It saddens me that people could effortlessly kill innocent civilians, such as what was going on in Asia, Ethiopia and Europe. May all of the victims Rest In Peace.

[alfonsogutierrez]

Well, purposefully looking the other way is criminal negligence

[gordonwhyte]

Yamashita principle? I surely expect THAT to be uniformly applied across all conflicts of all nations. How about warfare ever since then?

[jessgatt]

They took no prisoners, neither did we, "island of death".

[pex]

Interesting. I wonder if any US officer was ever held accountable under that...

[jamesmckenzie]

Look back to the two atrocities in Vietnam and Korea. Commanding officers were not held liable even though the "clean out" order came from them. Really bad policy to hold our enemies to a higher standard then ourselves.

[kaboon]

Not knowing the answer to the question, I'd assume he took notes and was quite inspired by those in Korea.

[misterpatrick]

Please proofread your captions. Thank you!

[Chief]

Maccarthur had Yamashita killed because Yamashita embarrassed him during the Japanese invasion

[wombatwilly]

Did they ever find Yamashita's gold?

[arthurneddysmith]

Why did he say "set a president known as ..." instead of "set a *precedent* known as ..."?

[eruno_]

Yamashita was literally not responsible

[Ryuko-T]

Insane what happened, and never heard anything until you covered it