«Very late the next night, however, something happened that did change the plan. The Soviet Union declared war and launched a broad surprise attack on Japanese forces in Manchuria. In that instant, Japan’s strategy was ruined. Stalin would not be extracting concessions from the Americans. And the approaching Red Army brought new concerns: The military position was more dire, and it was hard to imagine occupying communists allowing Japan’s traditional imperial system to continue. Better to surrender to Washington than to Moscow.», «Why did Japan surrender?», fra avisen Boston Globe, 7. august 2011
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MacKenzie, S. P. (1994). «The Treatment of Prisoners of War in World War II». The Journal of Modern History. 3 (engelsk). 66: 487–520. ISSN0022-2801. doi:10.1086/244883. Besøkt 4. juni 2023. «Obtaining an exact figure for the number of POWs is made virtually impossible by the inexactness or unavailability of the records kept by many of the belligerents. The figure of 35 million was put forward by K. W. Bohme, Zur Geschichte der deutschen Kriegsgefangenen des Zweiten Weltkrieges, 15 vols. (Munich, 1962-74), 1, pt. 1:x»
«Research Starters: Worldwide Deaths in World War II». The National WWII Museum, New Orleans, USA. Besøkt 15. april 2022. «Country: China, Military Deaths: 3–4,000,000, Total Civilian and Military Deaths: 20,000,000. Worldwide casualty estimates vary widely in several sources. The number of civilian deaths in China alone might well be more than 50,000,000.»
Richard Overy (7. mai 2005). «We must not forget how war was won». The Guardian. Besøkt 23. desember 2021. «Nor should we forget, when condemning Soviet repression in eastern Europe that allied airforces bombed German and Japanese cities up to the very end of the war, inflicting the deaths of more than 600,000 civilians and opening the nuclear age. After 1945 Britain and France re-imposed undemocratic imperial rule in Africa and south-east Asia. None of the victors has anything to feel smug about. The pursuit of victory made all the allies do things they might never have imagined themselves doing.»
MacKenzie, S. P. (1994). «The Treatment of Prisoners of War in World War II». The Journal of Modern History. 3 (engelsk). 66: 487–520. ISSN0022-2801. doi:10.1086/244883. Besøkt 4. juni 2023. «Obtaining an exact figure for the number of POWs is made virtually impossible by the inexactness or unavailability of the records kept by many of the belligerents. The figure of 35 million was put forward by K. W. Bohme, Zur Geschichte der deutschen Kriegsgefangenen des Zweiten Weltkrieges, 15 vols. (Munich, 1962-74), 1, pt. 1:x»
MacKenzie, S. P. (1994). «The Treatment of Prisoners of War in World War II». The Journal of Modern History. 3 (engelsk). 66: 487–520. ISSN0022-2801. doi:10.1086/244883. Besøkt 4. juni 2023. «Obtaining an exact figure for the number of POWs is made virtually impossible by the inexactness or unavailability of the records kept by many of the belligerents. The figure of 35 million was put forward by K. W. Bohme, Zur Geschichte der deutschen Kriegsgefangenen des Zweiten Weltkrieges, 15 vols. (Munich, 1962-74), 1, pt. 1:x»
