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

What the Japanese have not told the Germans is that they knew that the troop trains going to Siberia were empty, although they were full on the return trip to European Russia.38 And Oshima has already reported to Tokyo that the Germans have defeated the first Siberian troops they encountered in the Stalingrad region. Meanwhile, the German minister talking with the Japanese ambassador in Hsinking says that since “Stalin is an intelligent person there is a possibility of overtures from Russia for an independent peace.” The Japanese reply is withering: Yes, Russia might seek peace “if Germany bore down strongly enough.”39 And from Paris, the Japanese report that a diplomat named Achenbach, who is attached to the German embassy, has told the Japanese ambassador that “Laval’s way of acting is most loyal to us Germans and it is our policy to support him as fully as possible.… Now Laval has informed us Germans that he wishes to cooperate with Japan, too, and we intend to make