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In other words, the disasters and painful memories of the Second World War to the people of the world still affect many countries, and it can be said that the victims of the war will always be only those innocent and helpless civilians.
However, during World War II, there was such a story, and this story was enough to move the whole world. However, it was such a heart-warming story that it was not until a few decades after the end of the Second World War that it was gradually known to the world.
The protagonist of this story is Nicholas Winton, born in England in 1909, nicholas Winton must be very unfamiliar with this name, in short, Winton's actions during World War II, he used his own strength to save 669 children and innocent refugees.
It is precisely because of this that Mr. Nicholas Winton is known as the "Schindler" of the United Kingdom. In the winter of 1938, Nazi Germany annexed Austria and then gathered heavy troops to attack Czechoslovakia, unbeknownst to Mr. Winton.
At the time, he was preparing to go on vacation to Switzerland, but a phone call directly changed his original plans, which came from Prague, the capital of Czechoslovakia.
The person who called Mr. Winton was his good friend, who had wanted to go to Switzerland, but suddenly changed his route to Czechoslovakia.
It should be said that this friend of Mr. Winton was also a good man, and after he went to Prague, he began to help the local refugees non-stop. When Mr. Winton learned of this, he also decided to go to Prague, the capital of the Czech Republic, to have a look.
After Mr. Winton arrived in Prague, he was shocked by what happened before his eyes, and a large number of innocent Jews were deported to refugee camps by the German army.
Moreover, it was a cold winter season at that time, and the conditions of the refugee camp were self-evident, so to speak, that it was a hell without food and clothing. A large barracks had only a very small stove, and the "prisoners" in the camp were all gathered around the stove to keep warm.
Friends who are more familiar with history should know that life in refugee camps during World War II is simply unbearable, completely unable to express misery in words, and people who have not personally experienced it are completely unable to feel the pain.
What is more cruel than the refugee camp is the German concentration camp, it can be said that the Nazi concentration camp is a hell that kills people without blinking, and the most famous concentration camp during World War II is the "Auschwitz" concentration camp.
In the refugee camps of that time, there were old, weak, sick and disabled prisoners, and it was difficult for some relatively strong adults to escape, let alone those children who were half old.
However, if we want to keep those children in the camp alive, we can only separate these children from their parents, and the scene of separation of flesh and bones is probably not something we can experience.
In the end, in order to keep the children alive, they all parted ways with their parents, and Mr. Winton undoubtedly became the last straw for these refugee children, and Winton was not a big man at that time, he was just a very ordinary stockbroker.
These refugee children were sent to the UK, where it was possible to adopt them, but only if the children were adopted by a family willing to adopt them.
Fortunately, many British families were willing to adopt these refugee children at that time, and many children eventually grew up, and the fate of these children was changed by Mr. Winton's kindness.
It was not until 1988 that Mr. Winton's wife stumbled upon an old photo album containing many photographs of refugee children, and eventually the "secret" was discovered by a British television station, and Mr. Winton was invited to do a television interview.
A "secret" that occurred during World War II and was hidden for half a century was known to the world and touched countless people. In July 2015, Mr. Winton died of respiratory failure at the age of 106. The following is an introduction to "Schindler of the East" John Rabe
References for this article: "The Complete History of World War II", "Touching Stories in World War II", "Baidu Encyclopedia Related Terms - World War II, Nicholas Winton, etc."