Wow, I knew that in many wars the guerrilla warefare at times went on after the war was over, but for decades… I've always thought that it's hugely overblown and those are just anecdotes.
Turns out, there is a real prototype for these stories: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiroo_Onoda
In Japan and US it's probably a well-known fact, but for me it wasn't.
6 months ago · 👍 chirale
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiroo_Onoda
I don't know if it's the same in other languages but in Italian it became an idiom still used today. "L'ultimo giapponese", The last Japanese: someone who never surrender. · 6 months ago
WIld isn't it! There was always legend that the Tatra Mountains in Slovikia had partisan nazi fighters still in hiding. It's all a legend until Onoda! It reminds me that there was a legend I heard in Prague of the Sword of Wenceslas. There's a statue of a child holding a golden sword. The legend is that a child will find the sword hidden under the Charles Bridge when the people are thretened. The story of the golum of Prague similarly a story to help the people , but Onoda... he really did it. · 6 months ago