History has its own life, it is like a person, both easy-going and self-respecting. ——Yu Qiuyu
Since the "918" incident, the iron hooves of the Japanese army have begun to trample on the land of China with impunity, and everywhere they go, they burn, kill and loot. Countless families were torn apart by the Japanese, and the motherland was plunged into endless war. The cruelty and murderousness of the Japanese army, even the Germans were shocked by the brutality of the Japanese army, calling them "bestial troops". Today we will use this set of old photos to take you to see the brutal acts of the Japanese army that invaded China in those years. This photo depicts the Japanese army burying the Chinese people alive after the fall of Shenyang.
What the Japanese army did when it invaded China was to completely destroy humanity and do whatever it took to achieve its goals. In order to hunt down the so-called rebel forces, the Japanese did not hesitate at all. Whether it is an unarmed mass or a soldier who has laid down his arms, as long as he has a little military characteristic, he will be brutally killed by the Japanese. This photo depicts Nikko forcibly escorting some of the people to the car at the time, who have no idea what will happen to them.
This photograph was taken four days after the Japanese occupation of Nanjing, when more than 5,000 refugees hiding in the Nanjing Overseas Chinese Guest House were forcibly escorted by the Japanese to zhongshan wharf. The refugees were tied with their hands tied and lined up by the Japanese, waiting for them to strafe with machine guns. In this way, the innocent refugees were killed by the Japanese Kou with a sense of amusement, and then they simply threw their bodies into the Yangtze River to destroy their bodies.
This photograph was taken in May 1938 when a captured soldier was assassinated by the Japanese in the city of Xuzhou, which was occupied by the Japanese. In order to train the courage of the soldiers, the Japanese army openly tortured and killed prisoners of war and used living people to practice bayonets. This is against international law, so the Japanese military prohibits the publication of such photos. On the eve of Japan's surrender, a large number of photographs were destroyed by the Japanese army, leaving only a small part.
Chinese women who were "humiliated" after the Japanese army swept up. In the picture, you can see that the homes of the people have been swept away, and there are rubble and bricks everywhere. The "Three Lights Policy" caused heavy losses to the anti-Japanese base areas, not only reducing the area of the base area by one-third, but also reducing the population by more than 25 million. The Japanese army's sweep of the Jinzhong district in 1942 alone killed more than 50,000 Chinese people, and north China was full of tragic scenes of "no villages, no filial piety, and wolf smoke everywhere".
In the war of aggression against China, the Japanese and Kosovars carried out air raids and bombs more than once, and such indiscriminate bombing killed many innocent people and destroyed countless families. The family's home in this photo has just been bombed, their house has been destroyed, and the relatives lying on the left have been killed, but they can only weep and weep, and they can't do anything else.
In May 1943, the Japanese army carried out a "sweep" of the Wolf's Tooth Mountain in Yi County, Hebei Province, showing the parents of the two children killed by the Japanese army and the house burned down. The Japanese army once ordered that all people in the anti-Japanese base areas, young and old, be killed, believing that both adults and children could become anti-Japanese elements.
Atrocities committed by the Japanese army after the fall of Shenyang. After the occupation of Shenyang, the Japanese army wantonly killed, and even killed the Chinese people in a different way for fun. Some Japanese soldiers would draw a large circle on the road with white ash that would envelop the road, but anyone who Chinese entered the circle was immediately stabbed to death with a bayonet. The picture shows the Japanese army making Chinese citizens kneel against the wall in the Shenyang street market and then assassinate them. The Japanese soldier is holding a bayonet, ready to stab the kneeling Chinese civilians.
The Chinese woman who was forcibly "hooked up with her shoulders" by the Japanese army in the photo shows the Japanese army forcibly putting her hand on the woman's shoulder and asking the woman to hold his hand to show intimacy, but the woman's expression of fear in the photo pierces all this. The original intention of the Japanese to take this photo was to promote "Sino-Japanese goodwill", but it was full of flaws. Now that the smoke of war has dissipated for many years, and peace has become the common pursuit of the people of China and Japan and even the world, history may be forgiven, but it must not be forgotten. This humiliating and sad time is forever engraved in our national memory, forever reminding us of being beaten when we are backward and cherishing peace even more.
The road of history is full of twists and turns, and there is a lesson: "Conscientious and strong, the wind is the death"; "the prosperity is not sluggish, and strive to be strong". Only by keeping history in mind, taking history as a mirror, and being brave after knowing shame can we make our motherland prosperous and forever stand tall in the east of the world!