In 1938, a traitor was shot in a certain place in Shanxi
Traitor refers to a person who betrays the interests of the nation and bows to the aggressor and is willing to do what he wants. As early as the Yuan Dynasty, the word "Han traitor" appeared in the literature, which specifically referred to the traitors of the Han Dynasty, used in the early Qing Dynasty to represent the Han people engaged in illegal activities, the invasion of Western powers during the Daoguang years, "Han traitor" began to be used to betray the country, people who served foreigners, basically close to the current meaning. After the end of the War of Resistance Against Japan, another 1.28 million Japanese troops surrendered, and the number of surrendered puppet troops, known as traitors, was 950,000 (another version is 1.46 million), which is staggering.
Chen Gongbo
During the entire period of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, the traitors were actually more terrible than the Japanese army, because many times, the Japanese army only issued orders, and the specific implementation was carried out by the puppet army, and some people who were willing to be high-ranking officials of the puppet regime in the japanese invading areas became well-known traitors, Chen Gongbo was one of them, his entire political career was extremely complicated, he changed his position several times, and finally followed Wang Jingwei and became the second big traitor in the Republic of China, holding many important positions in the Wang puppet regime. After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, Chen Gongbo was tried and sentenced to death. The picture shows the scene of the interrogation of Chen Gongbo by the Jiangsu Higher People's Court in 1946, who was executed in June of the same year.
Chen Bijun
Chen Bijun is the wife of Wang Jingwei, the number one traitor, and some people say that Wang's defection to the enemy and treason has a lot to do with her. Born into a Chinese merchant family in Malaysia, Chen Bijun joined the league branch established by Sun Yat-sen in junior high school, becoming the youngest member, and married Wang Jingwei in 1912. After the outbreak of the War of Resistance Against Japan, she advocated peace with Japan, and after the establishment of the Wang puppet regime in 1940, Chen Bijun became the "First Lady" and held several positions. After Japan's surrender in 1945, Chen Bijun was arrested and imprisoned in the Nanjing Detention Center. The picture shows Chen Bijun in 1946 when he was tried by the Jiangsu High Court and died in the hospital of Tilanqiao Prison in Shanghai in 1959.
Zhou Zuoren
Zhou Zuoren, the second brother of the great literary hero Lu Xun, is also a very famous writer, he was a professor at Peking University, a representative of the New Culture Movement, and went to Japan to study with Lu Xun in 1906. In 1909, he married Hatta Nobuko of Japan, and In 1939, Zhou Zuoren served as the director of the Peking University Library and the dean of the Faculty of Letters hired by the Wang puppet regime, and such "apostatism" decisions were more or less influenced by his Japanese wife. In December 1945, Zhou Zuoren was arrested in Beiping for adultery and sentenced to 10 years in prison. The picture shows Zhou Zuoren being taken to court in 1946.
Lin Baisheng
Lin Baisheng, the dry son of Wang Jingwei and Chen Bijun, served as Wang Jingwei's secretary in 1924, began to run a newspaper office under Wang Jingwei's orders in 1929, defected to the enemy in 1938, and later served as a member of the Standing Committee of the Wang puppet regime and deputy director of the Central Propaganda Department, and in 1940, when he was the propaganda minister, he used various publications to carry out traitorous propaganda and slavery education. In 1945, Lin Baisheng fled to Japan and was subsequently escorted back to China. The picture shows the traitor Lin Baisheng being escorted to the court in August 1946, and in October of the same year, Lin Baisheng was executed.
Yin Rugeng
Yin Rugeng, who went to Japan to study at the age of 21, is a Japanese generalist. He joined the League in 1909, later participated in the Xinhai Revolution, and in 1925 became the military foreign minister under Guo Songling's tent, after Guo's defeat, Yin Rugeng fled to the Japanese consulate, and was subsequently escorted to Japan by the Japanese army. After the Jidong Incident in 1935, Yin Rugeng served as the chairman of the puppet Jidong Defense Communist Autonomous Government, openly defected to the enemy, and after 1943 served the Wang puppet regime. After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, Yin Rugeng was taken to the Beiping Army Prison and later transferred to nanjing Tiger Bridge Prison. Pictured here is Yin Rugeng being taken from his cell to court in July 1947 and executed by firing squad in December of the same year.
Zhou Fohai
Since April 1946, the government of the Republic of China began to deal with the trial of traitors in a centralized manner, and more than 25,000 cases related to traitors were tried in half a year, of which 369 people were sentenced to death. Zhou Fohai was also a person who changed his political stance many times, defected to Japan during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, and became one of the important ministers of the Wang puppet regime. In 1946, Zhou Fohai was sentenced to death, which was later changed to indefinite life, and died in prison in 1948, pictured by doctors in prison confirming Zhou Fohai's death.
Chu Minyi
Chu Minyi, who studied in Japan and France in his early years, joined the League in Singapore in 1906, and after meeting Wang Jingwei and Chen Bijun and his wife, he married the adopted daughter of Chen Bijun's mother and became a brother-in-law with Wang Jingwei. After the outbreak of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Chu Minyi began to actively respond to Wang Jingwei's pro-Japanese traitorous activities, and after the establishment of the Wang puppet regime, Chu Minyi served as the secretary general of the puppet regime, the puppet foreign minister, the ambassador to Japan, and other important positions, and was awarded the "Great Medal" by the Japanese army. In March 1946, Chu Minyi was finally sentenced to death by the Jiangsu Higher People's Court for participating in the treasonous treaty and other five major crimes, the picture shows Chu Minyi in court, and was executed in Suzhou Lion Bridge Prison in August of the same year.
Yoshiko Kawashima
Yoshiko Kawashima, also known as Jin Bihui, was the fourteenth daughter of Prince Su of the Qing Dynasty, who was sent by her father to the Japanese ronin Kawashima Nanasu as an adopted daughter from an early age, and received many years of military education in Japan. After becoming an adult, he returned to China to engage in espionage activities for the Japanese army, participated in the work of the Huanggutun Incident, the 918 Incident, the Shanghai 1.28 Incident and other events, and became a heinous female demon. Arrested by the military command in October 1945, he was executed in The First Prison of Peiping on March 25, 1948, showing Yoshiko Kawashima being executed and then displayed at the prison gate, whose face is unrecognizable, so some people suspect that it is a stand-in.
Tin Mok Estate
Ding Mo Estate, after Wang Jingwei defected to the Japanese army, was co-opted by li Shiqun, who smelled of the same smell, repeatedly betrayed the intelligence of the nationalist army to Kenji Toihara, and after his "merits" were affirmed by the Japanese army, he formed the Shanghai Special Operative Department together with Li Shiqun, wantonly hunted down anti-Japanese people, and created thousands of bloody cases. The picture shows Ding Mo Estate being brought to court in 1946, and although he vigorously defended himself, the fact of being a traitor could not be changed, and he was executed in Nanjing Tiger Bridge Prison in 1947.