Ms. Tojo, whose grandfather was executed as a war criminal after the war, said she was disappointed that Mr. Koizumi had not stuck to his original plans.
His regime was finally toppled by a coup d'etat in August 1944 led by King Michael; Antonescu subsequently was sentenced to death by the Romanian communist people's court and was executed as a war criminal in 1946.
Leading the YS-11's design was Teruo Tojo, one of the Mitsubishi Zero fighter's original engineers and the second son of Hideki Tojo, the Japanese wartime leader who was executed as a war criminal by the Allies.
"When I first came back I wanted him executed as a war criminal, but several years ago now I actually wound up getting to be friends with him," said Muller, who joined McNamara on the rostrum at speaking engagements.
As a pair of "Death's Head" cufflinks owned by Ernst Kaltenbrunner, who was executed as a war criminal, prompted a flurry of bids and ultimately sold for $950, the room fell strangely silent.
Indeed, the man who organised that operation, Curtis LeMay, said that, had America lost the war, he would have been executed as a war criminal.In those cases, the allied governments justified their actions by saying that they defended soldiers' lives by shortening the war.
