> So my question is, how well documented was the Japanese back-channel surrender offer? Is it documented that it was made to legitimate decision-makers through those back channels?
[Edit: I linked to a terrible source. I apologise.]
[Edit: I linked to a terrible source. I apologise.]
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institute_for_Historical_Rev...
"The IHR is not regarded as conducting serious historical research by mainstream historians and academics but rather as conducting pseudo-science..."
EDIT: that said, do you have a source that isn't a holocaust-denial website?
I have heard this claim from decidedly less-terrible sources, but the hour is too late in my current timezone to pursue this thread. So until then I will need to relax the certitude of my claims.