The Japanese officer should be Capt. Tameichi hara
Mmmh, 24 views and not a single guess!?! I think it’s time for hints to keep the threat alive.
Well, as you may have recognized the person in question is wearing a uniform of the Red Army and, yes, he was russian.
He became a well-known person after the war means not due to his military achievements.
Looks like a young Saddam Hussein, but can’t possibly be him.
(Just bumping up the thread)
Similarity is quite obvious, yes, but it’s not young late Saddam. Far from it, the mystery man is of jewish belief.
Well, my dear Mr. Flamethrowerguy, I have to tell you that in this moment, I have at least… 14 perfectly matching and in the very same time completely incongruous personalities on my list, but we do need certain additional informations. For example, what his personal field of expertise during or after the war actually was?
Allright, he volunteered for service in the Red Army in 1941. Because of his excellent knowledge of the german language he was assigned to a propaganda unit and served as an interpreter.
By the end of the war he became kind of a pariah with his own people for criticizing the Red Army’s behaviour on german soil. This got him 10 years in the Gulag.
After the war he was a well-known (I hope so) author as well as a dissident.
Perhaps Mr. Lev Zalmanovich Kopelev (Лев Зиновьевич Копелев), my dear Mr. Flamethrowerguy? Please, just follow this link – there is an highly corresponding photo-portrait:
Congratulations, Mr. Librarian, absolutely right. I was starting to wonder if Kopelev wasn’t that popular outside of Germany as I expected but I hoped either you or our russian members would solve the mistery. Please proceed.
Thank you very much, my dear Mr. Flamethrowergay. And now, honorable ladies and gentlemen – back to the genuine heritage of this thread! Our next personality had a truly unique military biography.
Our special guest was a highly educated professional officer, who was born into an aristocratic family. He was a tactical mastermind in a higly specific offensive course of action in WW1, as well as an expert technician in the WW2, gifted with a so rare mathematical accuracy in his mental judgment. A non-orthodox thinker, capable for completely unexpected movements, and exceptionally honest personality as well. Do you recognize this character, honorable ladies and gentlemen? 
Photo doesn’t appear for me - direct linky is http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a137/Langnasen/00004.jpg
Well, my dear Mr. Pdf 27, I think that some… unknown electronic bugs are involved here! You see, for some unknown reasons I always have to repeat TWICE my login procedure when I wish to post something in this thread! 
I really do not know what is going on with this electronic junction, but nevertheless – thank you! Fortunately, that snapshot is now completely visible. 
I hope this was a typo…:shock:
What? Oh my Lord… So sorry, my dear Mr. Flamethrowerguy! Of course, that was a coursed typo! Ich bitte um Entschuldigung!:oops:
Please understand me – I’ve had a very busy and utterly arduous day today at work. I have finished my daily work… well, just about some 40 minutes ago. And I desperately do need some sleep. Once again – so sorry! 
Walther von Seydlitz-Kurzbach
Seydlitz was one of the generals who argued most forcefully in favor of a breakout, in contravention of Hitler’s orders. On the surrender of the remaining forces in Stalingrad, Seydlitz was taken into Soviet custody
It’s a bandwidth / knowledge proportionality issue.
You have to log in twice because you know at least twice as much as anyone else on the board.
Bravo, my dear Mr. Gumalangi! Yes, General der Artillerie Walther von Seydlitz-Kurzbach - a descendant of general Friedrich von Seydlitz of Friedrich the Great’s army, mastermind of the Demyansk pocket, one of the generals who fiercely and logically argued in favor of a breakout at Stalingrad (in direct contravention of Hitler’s orders!), the leader of the anti-Nazi organization the League of the German Officers – and a prominent member of the National Committee for Free Germany. A person who issued a proclamation that the war was lost and that Germans should overthrow Hitler’s regime, in spite of fact that his family was taken into Sippenhaft – legally approved detention for the crimes of a family member.
Expressed with his own words “Our intentions are to lead the Wehrmacht to the frontiers of Germany and to preserve it for the people. An honorable peace can be in store only for a people whose Wehrmacht is not disintegrated.”
My sincerest congratulations - good job done! Please, carry on.
PS: thank you very much for your kind words, my dear Mr. Rising Sun. You know, it seems to me that lawyers always are – generally speaking! – somehow… underestimated. Nevertheless, that’s why we both are here!
We lawyers manage to console ourselves with the knowledge that when people are arrested they never ask the police to telephone a librarian. Which is a bit counter-intuitive when the police have thrown the book at the accused.
The converse is that at dinners and parties nobody ever asks a librarian to justify the existence of the notoriously unjust and errratic Dewey Decimal Classification System before demanding advice on how to avoid paying justly incurred library fines, but they always want free advice on legal matters from lawyers after condemning the legal system and the part lawyers play in it. This may be why librarians enjoy themselves at parties and lawyers just slink into a solitary corner and get disgracefully drunk.
Hitler was full of drugs aswell, could of cause his problems.
Not least because he refused to alter his diet and caused himself much gastric distress because of his fondness for pastries.
Thanx for correcting me on that point, yes youre right, i also meant has well that the drugs didt help his situation. Cheers
Hey R/S Are you a real defence lawyer.