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Omi,
302

patriotic organizations in,
184

Pearl Harbor attacked by,
188
,
216
,
314
,
316

Philippines invaded by,
188
–90

prostitution in,
34
–38,
45

purge of wartime bureaucracy and political establishment in,
172
–76,
183
–87

rebuilding of,
261
–62

reform bureaucrats in,
251
,
259
,
260

relief to,
65
–66

resistance and,
169
,
171
,
172

rule in Southeast Asia,
112
,
115

Soviet Union and,
66
–67,
69
,
80
,
297

surrender of,
262
,
265
,
271

Tokyo,
60
,
61
,
62
,
69

U.S. military operations in,
303

writing system in,
301
–2

Japanese:

in China,
79
,
80
–81

kamikaze pilots,
140
,
141
–42

letters to MacArthur from,
174
–75,
185

MacArthur's view of,
296
–97

soldiers' return home,
139
–44

Soviets' revenge against,
80

war criminals, trials of,
212
–18

Western masculinity and,
40
–41,
45

Japanese culture,
296
,
297
,
299

Kabuki theater,
300
,
301
,
332

reeducation and,
276
,
287
,
295
–306

Shinto,
263
,
300
–301

Japanese Tragedy, The,
304

Japan Times,
332

Java,
118

jazz,
289
–90,
291

Jebb, Gladwyn,
308
,
320
–21,
327

Jefferson, Thomas,
286

“Jerusalem” (Blake),
249
–50

Jewish Agency,
168

Jewish Brigade,
98
–99,
161

Jewish Chronicle,
162

Jews,
71
–72,
103
,
122
,
158
,
160
–68,
177
,
289
,
312

communism and,
88

concentration camps and,
see
concentration camps

French,
220

German deportations compared to experience of,
157
–58

hiding and helping of,
89
,
171
–72

homecomings of,
134
–35

Horthy and,
206

Hungarian,
206

Laval and,
220
,
221

laws against Nazis compared to laws against,
178

Mussert and,
219
–20

in Netherlands,
134
–36

plunder of assets of,
89
–90,
178

in Poland,
86
–90,
134
,
160
–62,
164
,
165
,
168

revenge against,
90

revenge by,
98
,
99
–101

scale of genocide against,
161
,
165

United States and,
162
,
167

wealth attributed to,
88
,
89

Zionism and,
99
,
100
,
161
–68,
244

Journal à Quatre Mains
(Groult and Groult),
25

Judt, Tony,
90
,
101

Jules et Jim,
309

Juliana, Princess,
24

Jünger, Ernst,
94
,
157
,
234

Kabuki theater,
300
,
301
,
332

Kades, Charles,
176
,
299

Kafu, Nagai,
43
–44

Kaliningrad,
78

kamikaze pilots,
140
,
141
–42

Kant, Immanuel,
278

Kästner, Erich,
68

Kato Etsuro,
303

Katyn massacre,
233

Keeler, Christine,
296
n

Keenan, Joseph B.,
185
,
186

Keene, Donald,
61
,
186
–87,
193
–94,
268
–70

Keitel, Wilhelm,
18

Kempeitai,
183
–84,
188
,
214
,
259

Kennan, George F.,
225
,
235

Kennedy, John F.,
326
–27

Kerr, Robert,
216

Kertész, Imre,
133
–34

Keynes, John Maynard,
270
–71,
290

Kido Shinichiro,
118

Kim Il-sung,
191
,
268
,
270

Kinzel, Eberhard Hans,
15

Kishi Nobusuke,
187
,
259
–61,
262
,
270
,
303

Kitano Masaji,
211
,
212

Klee, Paul,
ix

Klein, Fritz,
228
–30

,
148

Koestler, Arthur,
253

Königsberg,
78
,
158

Konoe Fumimaro,
34

Korea,
34
,
106
,
191
,
262
–70,
272
,
273

division of,
270

Japan and,
262
–67

political rivalries in,
264
–65

sadae
in,
265
,
268
,
269

Shinto shrines in,
263

Soviets in,
264
,
266
–69

U.S. in,
265
–69

Korean War,
270
,
298

Korwin, Marta,
32

Kovner, Abba,
99
–101

Krakow,
87

Kramer, Jose,
228
–30

Krockow, Christian von,
91

Krupp, Alfried,
181
,
183

Kulturbund,
284
,
285

Kun, Béla,
205
,
207

Labour Party,
253
,
254

in Britain,
243
–44,
246
–48,
250
,
271
,
273

Lamartine, Alphonse de,
311
–12

Lamsdorf,
94
,
95

Laski, Harold,
246
–47

Lattimore, Owen,
261

Laurel, José P.,
188
,
189
,
191

Laurel, Salvador “Doy,”
191

Laval, Pierre,
200
,
218
–25,
229

Law No. 8,
177
–78,
181

League of Nations,
9
,
308
,
309
,
314
,
316
,
318
,
322

Lebanon,
324
,
325

Legge, Walter,
237

Lehndorff, Hans Graf von,
78
,
82
,
156

Lehnhard, Frau,
5

Leipzig,
180

Lemberg,
158

Lemkin, Raphael,
322

Lend-Lease Act,
270
,
317

Levant,
323
–25

Levitt, Saul,
226

Levy, Rabbi,
162

Lewis, Norman,
33
–34

Liberation,
13
–16,
20
,
22
–23,
37
,
51
,
76
,
86

of Bergen-Belsen,
29
–30

colonial societies and,
111

of France,
20
,
50
,
85
,
120
,
171

of Greece,
208
,
209

in Netherlands,
53
,
84
,
132
,
134

sexuality and,
23
–29,
38
–39,
50

Libération,
19
,
20

Liberation complex,
13

Liberation Day,
14
–15

Lithuania,
160
,
168

Litwinska, Sophia,
229

Löbe, Paul,
157

London,
57

V-E Day in,
18
–19,
21
,
22

Lorelei, The
(Heine),
2

Lothian, Philip Kerr, Lord,
310

Lvov,
89

MacArthur, Douglas (Supreme Commander for Allied Powers; SCAP),
41

Japan and,
35
,
37
,
65
,
66
,
174
–76,
183
–86,
191
,
211
,
261
,
304

Japanese reeducation and,
296
–301

Japanese viewed as childlike by,
296
–97

letters from Japanese citizens to,
174
–75,
185

Philippines and,
188
–91,
213
–18

Willoughby and,
176
,
211

Yamashita and,
213
–17

Macmillan, Harold,
103
–4,
107
–10,
150
,
245

“Madelon,”
20

Malaparte, Curzio,
49
,
149

Malaya,
111
,
112
–14,
125
,
212

Mallaby, A. W. S.,
119

Manchester Guardian,
244
,
250
,
324
,
331

Manchukuo,
66
,
80
,
81
,
184
,
193
,
203
–4,
210
–11,
212
,
257
–61

Shinkyo,
258

Manchuria,
66
,
69
,
80
,
187
,
195
–96,
203
,
330

Soviet invasion of,
66
–67,
69
,
195

Manila,
60
,
188
–90

Massacre of,
212
–17,
306

Mann, Thomas,
286

Mao Zedong,
9
,
102
,
192
–93

Márai, Sándor,
59
,
205

Marcos, Ferdinand,
191

Marcuse, Herbert,
177

Marriage of Maria Braun, The,
141

“Marseillaise of Peace” (Lamartine),
311

Marshall, Richard,
184

Martin, Françoise,
125

Marx, Karl,
257

Masada,
161

Mascolo, Dionys,
138

Mauldin, William “Bill,”
143
–44

Mennonites,
2

Meredith, George,
278

Metaxas, Ioannis,
107
,
109
,
110

Metternich, Klemens von,
327

Michel, Ernst,
231
–34,
241

Michnik, Adam,
86

Middle East,
324
–25

Mikado
(Gilbert and Sullivan),
300

Milan,
59

militarism,
174
,
175
,
179
,
183
,
185
,
276

Prussian,
171
,
173
,
175
,
182
,
279

Mitsubishi,
187
,
260
,
261

Mitsui,
187
,
260

Mitterrand, François,
138

Molotov, Vyacheslav,
321
,
328

Monde,
331

Monnet, Jean,
253
,
255
,
256
,
295

Montgomery, Bernard “Monty,”
15
,
16
,
54
,
207

Monument of Jewish Gratitude,
136

Moran, Sherwood,
61

Morgenthau, Henry,
65
–66,
276
,
317

Morgenthau Plan,
65
,
276
,
278

Mornet, André,
222

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