Date of birth:

April 19th, 1886 (Gifu Prefecture, Japan)

Date of death:

June 6th, 1975 (Tokyo, Japan)

Nationality:

Japanese

Lieutenant General Baron Hiroshi Oshima (大島浩) was the Japanese ambassador during the Second World War and a 'close friend' of Adolf Hitler.. The Allied forces intercepted many of his messages. Oshima was arrested on 16 December 1945 in Japan and later sentenced to life prison as a war criminal.

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