After the outbreak of the September 18 Incident, Italy's attitude toward China was still remarkable, not only selling a lot of weapons and equipment to China, but also cooperating with the Chinese side to build the Nanchang Aircraft Factory and the Luoyang Aviation School.
After Japan invaded China in an all-round way, with the defeat of the Kuomintang army on the battlefield, Italy began to look at the Japanese and collude frequently. Taken in May 1938, this group of photographs is a true account of an Italian envoy visiting the Japanese in Tianjin.
Zhengyangmen Railway Station
On May 6, 1938, in the square in front of the Zhengyangmen Railway Station in Beijing, many high-class cars were parked, preparing to welcome the Italian envoys from Shanghai.
Zhengyang Gate City Tower
The Convoy of The Italian Envoys passed in front of the Zhengyangmen City Tower, one of the liveliest places in Beijing, but there were no pedestrians on the road, and it was clear that the Japanese had blocked the streets to welcome the arrival of the Italians.
Tour the Temple of Heaven
The Italian delegation made a short stop in Beijing, touring the Temple of Heaven and the Summer Palace, and then made a non-stop trip to Tianjin.
On the train
The Italians who took the train to Tianjin were arranged in a dining car. Plaster flags, Italian flags and five-color flags are hung in the carriages. The five-color flag was the flag of the puppet provisional government of the Republic of China at that time, which was actually a joke, because no pseudo-government personnel participated in the whole event.
Tianjin East Railway Station
The train arrived at Tianjin East Railway Station, and a group of Japanese soldiers had been waiting on the platform to greet them. After the envoys got out of the car, they greeted the Japanese very warmly.
"Welcome" to the team
In order to curry favor with the Japanese masters, the "New People's Association", a traitor organization at that time, organized some illegible children to stand on the side of the railway station and pose as a welcome.
Wretched
Accompanied by the Japanese, the head of the Italian mission walked through the "welcome" line with great enthusiasm, and he frequently waved to the children, thinking that everyone was sincerely welcoming him.
A welcome party for the Japanese
Most of the people standing on the side of the road were Japanese women in kimonos, holding plaster flags in their hands. At the front of the line stood an old traitor in a robe and a horse's coat, wearing glasses, and the top hat on his head was taken off early and held in his hand, a standard slave look.
Japan National Defense Women's Association
The delegation spoke with members of the Japan Defense Women's Association. These Japanese women, who wore housewives' covers and stepped on the pull plates, seemed harmless to humans and animals, but throughout the Japanese invasion of China, they played a constant role in fueling the waves.
U.S. Department of Labor
From the beginning of the "918" incident, the United States basically held the attitude of "watching the fire from the other side" toward the atrocities committed by the Japanese in China. Not only that, but it also sold a large number of war materials to Japan, and ate Chinese "blood steamed buns". It was not until June 11, more than a month later, that the United States imposed a so-called "moral embargo" on Japan, advising manufacturers of American aircraft and their parts not to sell aircraft and aviation equipment to Japan.
Review the honor guard
Everyone knows the performance of the Italian army in World War II, although the combat effectiveness is not good, but the shelf is very large, and the domineering attitude of the military commander of the envoy corps is likely to have received mussolini's true biography.
Make a speech
The military commander gave a speech at the Italian Barracks in Tianjin, and the small man with a big voice could not help but remind people of a noisy frog.
Show off your record
The Japanese military led the envoys to a ruin on the north side of the Jingang Bridge, with the aim of giving them a look at the bombed Tianjin municipal government in order to show off their "brilliant" achievements.
Smiling
In the early morning of July 30, 1937, Japanese aircraft and artillery indiscriminately bombed Tianjin, causing a large number of buildings to be destroyed and heavy casualties. These Italians left this place soaked in Chinese blood, and their faces showed strange smiles, and their hearts were reprehensible.
Leave Tianjin
The envoy group leaving from Tianjin East Railway Station. On September 27, 1940, Germany, Italy, and Japan signed the Treaty of The German-Italian-Japanese Triple Alliance in Berlin, and the Axis powers were formed.
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