Marching Orders: The Untold Story of How the American Breaking of the Japanese Secret Codes Led to the Defeat of Nazi Germany and Japan

by Bruce Lee

Oshima makes a point about how the Germans maintain “excellent” civilian morale, obviously hoping that Tokyo will learn from this lesson. “After every heavy attack,” he reports, “the German officials are on hand with the food and supplies for which people clamor, thereby inspiring a feeling of quiet security among the people and giving them the hope, slight though it might be, that they will be spared in the next attacks. Such measures also serve to instill in the populace the idea that the Government has ample reserves for whatever vicissitudes may come.… Now it is quite clear that the people’s will to resist has been so intensified that they feel they have no alternative but to fight it out to the last ditch.”