In the second world , the only country that did not accept Japan surrendered to was Australia!
11945 On August 15, The Japanese Emperor announced that he would accept the urge to surrender to Japan by China, the United States and Britain. Potsdam Announcement and implement unconditional surrender. All Japanese war zones laid down their weapons and submitted surrender letters to the Allied Command of the theater where they were located. The Japanese commander-in-chief in the South Pacific also submitted surrender letters to Australia. Unexpectedly, they were returned by Australia. Australia insisted on punishing Japan's initiator of World War II, Emperor Hirohito, and refused to recognize the identity of Japanese prisoners of war, becoming the only country in World War II that refused to surrender.
The reason why Australia hates Japan so much is mainly because of two things: abuse of prisoners of war and sneak attack on Darwin .
In 1941, Japan's Lieutenant General Fengmoto led only 30,000 Japanese troops to capture Singapore, the headquarters of the British army in Southeast Asia. The British defenders were incompetent. After the Japanese captured Kranzhi, the source of Xinjiapo water, they were scared and led 130,000 British and Australian coalition forces to surrender, of which more than 30,000 Australian defenders were more than 30,000, of which a large part were non-combatants.
The victory in Singapore and Southeast Asia in the early stages of the battles made Japan proud. As we all know, the Japanese nation, bullies the weak. naturally would not give any face to face with the huge Commonwealth prisoners of war, especially as Australia, the Japanese army was extremely despised. In the prison camp, they did not regard Australian prisoners of war as humans. After the end of World War II, only more than 7,000 Australian prisoners of war lived out of the prison camp, which made Australia extremely angry.
There is also the Japanese modeled after the Pearl Harbor incident and attacked Darwin, an important military port in Australia, causing heavy losses to Australia. In addition, the Japanese army also violated the Geneva Convention . During this bombing, they bombed hospitals, schools, and kindergartens, killing nearly 700 innocent Australians.
The above two things completely angered Australia. The Australian Parliament passed the proposal with a high vote to launch the most cruel revenge against the Japanese. At that time, Australia's national population was only more than 7 million, and nearly 1 million people were mobilized to participate in the war, with a mobilization force exceeding 15% of the country's total population.
11943, the US-Australia coalition launched the New Guinea Battle . 200,000 Japanese troops guarding the island were beaten by the US-Australia coalition, but the US military implemented the island-jumping tactics . After severely attacking the Japanese army, the US military immediately headed north and attacked the Japanese troops on other islands in the Pacific, leaving only the Australian Army commander commander . 3 The Australian army (the 3rd, 5th, 7th and 9th divisions of the Australian army under the command of continued to clean up the Japanese army on the island. Seeing the US army withdrew, the Japanese army thought it could be a window period, but unexpectedly, the Australians did not give the Japanese army a chance to breathe. Not only did they completely cut off the Japanese road to obtain food from outside, mobilized naval warships to use shells, and launched a bombardment of the Japanese army stationed on the island day and night.
In order to avoid the artillery of the Australian army, the Japanese army could only get into the air-raid shelter for a while, but the long-term lack of food made the Japanese army gradually collapse and began to eat the corpses of their companions. The long-term use of the corpses made the Japanese army rampant with dysentery. The Japanese army who could not stand it gave up their so-called Bushido spirit and surrendered to Australia. Unexpectedly, they were rejected by the Australian army and shot them all. In this battle, the Australians wiped out a total of 180,000 Japanese troops, and the death rate of the Japanese army on New Guinea Island was as high as 95%, making New Guinea an eternal nightmare in the hearts of the Japanese.
After Japan surrender, the Australian army refused to admit that Japan surrendered and continued to launch attacks on the Japanese army. Tens of thousands of Japanese prisoners who had already issued weapons were eliminated by the Australian army. Forced by the Australian power, 140,000 Japanese troops stationed on Rabaul Island built a prisoner of war camp for themselves in advance, and also built a luxurious military camp, office building, swimming pool, and gym for the Australian army. So after 3,000 Australian troops landed on the island, the Japanese commander Imamura respectfully surrendered to the Australian army and invited the Australian army to move into the luxurious office area. 140,000 Japanese troops obediently walked into the prisoner of war camp, waiting for the final trial, which became a strange thing in the history of World War II.
