"World War II" is a cruel period of time, as long as these two words are mentioned, everyone will invariably think of a sad history. For example, the Nanjing Massacre that the Japanese army did on the land of China, and the "mass grave" incident in Datong, Shanxi, which we will talk about today.
In October 1937, when the Japanese army attacked Shanxi, the Datong coal mine was discovered. As a result, the Japanese army began to frantically start seizing coal resources. In order to be able to mine more coal more coal more quickly, they implemented a policy of "exchanging people for coal", plundering 14 million tons of coal, resulting in more than 60,000 miners being destroyed to death.
In 1945, the Japanese Emperor announced his surrender, and the Japanese army withdrew from China. However, although they left, they also left a "mass grave" in the Datong Coal Mine in Shanxi.
According to the survivors of the "mass grave", the environment in which they worked and lived was simply unbearable. More than 100 miners huddled in a dark earthen house, eating all the dishes in the water and sleeping at night with broken sacks.
This way there is no food, no warmth, no work day and night. There were also Japanese soldiers as overseers, and as long as the laborers straightened their waists or did not sweat on their heads, they would be beaten head-on.
If the Japanese soldiers found that any laborer was sick or injured and could no longer continue mining, they would be buried alive or burned to death. In the winter of the two years before the end of the war, due to the harsh environment and extremely poor hygiene, a very serious plague broke out among the laborers.
The Japanese army could not treat these laborers with drugs, so that healthy laborers could carry sick or dead people to the ground and bury them. Coupled with the corpses buried here in the past, this place has finally become a "mass grave" with countless white bones.
Later, people found this "mass grave" in Datong Nangou in Shanxi, and after the analysis of the human bones of the "mass grave" in the Datong coal mine by criminal investigation experts, most of these remains had different degrees of damage, and the average age at the time of death was 32.85 years old, basically young and middle-aged, which was really unbearable.
In 1962, China established a memorial hall on the site of the "Mass Grave" of the Datong Coal Mine in Shanxi To commemorate the tragic death of those who died that year.
The "Mass Grave" memorial hall of the Datong Coal Mine in Shanxi is ironclad evidence of Japan's plundering of China. This white bone of Sensen also always warns future generations not to forget the humiliation of the past, to strive to develop and grow, only strong enough to avoid similar things from happening again.