Baron Hiroshi Ōshima talking with german army officers,  Maginot Line, Belgium 1942

Baron Hiroshi Ōshima in the Maginot Line, 1942

Hiroshi Ōshima was a general in the Imperial Japanese Army, Japanese ambassador to Nazi Germany before and during World War II and unknowingly a major source of communications intelligence for the Allies. His role was perhaps best summed up by General George C. Marshall, who identified Ōshima as "our main basis of information regarding Hitler's intentions in Europe"



Baron Hiroshi Ōshima

IJA soldiers posing with a wing of a shoot down Flying Tiger plane, Burma 1943