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Ōshima Hiroshi, Lt-General Baron

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Ōshima Hiroshi, Lt-General Baron (1886–1975),Japanese army officer turned diplomat who helped negotiate the Anti-Comintern and Tripartite Pacts. As a lt-general he served as ambassador to Berlin in 1938–9 and 1941–5. It was his diplomatic MAGIC messages that were so helpful to the Allies during the war. He was sentenced to life imprisonment at the Far East war crimes trials but was given parole in 1955.

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