What kind of treatment were given to Japanese prisoners of war after they were captured by the Soviets? What else could there be? After the end of World War II, the Soviets lacked labor the most.
After all, in the whole of World War II, more than 26 million Soviets died in battle alone, and in just over 26 million miles, young and strong still accounted for no old or young.
Even now, the Soviet Union has become the current Russia, because this group of dead population, they have not yet reversed this breath, women account for 53.5% of the total population, which belongs to the state of serious imbalance in the proportion of the population.
After the end of World War II, the entire territory of the Soviet Union was destroyed by the Germans, so it needed people to build, you think about it yourself.
As a prisoner of war, he ran to people's land to help with construction, and heavy physical labor would certainly not be able to escape, and this food could not be eaten.
After all, the food supply of 600,000 people is an astronomical number, and after the end of the war, the Soviets themselves were short of food, not to mention the Japanese prisoners of war.
For this matter, the Japanese are still struggling to get an explanation.
In fact, Japanese people also have faces to say this.
How did they treat Chinese prisoners of war? How did they treat prisoners of war in Europe and america, dig coal mines, use them as targets for human experiments, and how they lacked morality.
Let's not say anything else, in 1939, japan made the Nomonkan incident, provoked the Soviet Union twice before and after, and the good guy was beaten by the Neck of the Soviet Union for half a day.
Seven million Chinese laborers were recruited and a 1,700-kilometer-long defensive line was built.
Of course, this matter is not worth chewing, the problem is that the Japanese exterminated afterwards, and most of these laborers were either buried alive or gassed after completion.
Do you think the Japanese will experiment with Chinese live? No! During World War II, many European and American prisoners of war also fell into the hands of the Japanese.
The Japanese also used European and American prisoners of war as human experiments, and on the surface it was said that they were vaccinated and injected, which led to the large-scale death of European and American prisoners of war.
Below is a surviving British major prisoner of war, secretly writing part of a diary in a prisoner-of-war camp set up by the Japanese, and you can see for yourself.
On February 23, 1943, 142 dead were buried. 186 people died in 105 days, all Americans. By 6 August, 208 people had died. By November 21, more than 230 people had died.
How did these people die? All died after being injected with so-called injections.
Of course, the above seems to be not compatible with the subject's problem at all, in fact, the editor just wants to tell the big guys, 600,000 Kwantung Army was captured by the Soviets, the treatment is not good, this matter has a cause and effect, you did the first year, and you still don't allow people to come to fifteen?
You say yes or no.
In this way, it is not to answer the main question, even if it is to hit a background wall.
So next, let's chew this matter for everyone.
In other words, the reason why the Soviets attacked the Kwantung Army in the northeast was entirely because at the Yalta Conference, the Americans made a deal with the Soviets with the interests of the Chinese, and finally let the Soviets launch an attack on the Kwantung Army within three months after the end of the European battlefield.
You see that weak countries have no diplomacy, and their own interests cannot be decided by themselves.
Of course, some friends have to ask: "Why do the Americans ask the Soviets to attack the Kwantung Army?" ”
Quite simply, the Americans were frightened by the hysterical beast-like attacks of the Japanese, and they felt that they were alone in hitting the Japanese, and the casualties could not stand it, so there was such a file.
It turns out that the Americans think too much, and the reason why the Japanese are hysterical is entirely because he squandered on the bottom of that idea, and after the splurge, there is nothing left.
So in history, we have seen such a scene.
At midnight on August 6, 1945, more than one and a half million Soviet Red Army attacked the Japanese Kwantung Army from three directions, and in one week, in one week, the so-called elite flower of the Japanese was destroyed.
All that was left of the Red Army was to go across the mountains to capture prisoners, and the good guys captured fifty-nine thousand people in one go, and more than eighty-three thousand Japanese were killed.
Of course, the number of prisoners of war captured is very different from the report of Qin Yansaburo, chief of the general staff of the Kwantung Army, who said that there were 450,000 prisoners of war.
Why is there such a big gap? This was because this Qin Yansaburo wanted to cut out the 160,000 recruits who had been forcibly recruited before the armistice.
Of course, no matter how many he counts, we only know that the Soviets have eaten this bite, and he is not going to release people. The Soviets were short of labor, and these six hundred thousand could build him a road and saw a piece of wood.
Of course, the Soviets were not so desperate, pulling all the Japanese prisoners of war away, but left almost 110,000 people and sent them back.
Speaking of this, it is estimated that there are small partners to ask, why did this good end be sent back to the Japanese?
There are some old, weak, sick and disabled here, and there are Japanese female soldiers, and it is of little use to pull them back, there are more than 70,000 people in this part, and there are almost 40,000 sick prisoners, so they were released.
Therefore, in history, the Chinese people have also taken in many such Japanese. That's Chinese, too kind.
Why? At that time, there were japanese non-military personnel in tohoku, and according to the Japanese's own statistics, there were actually as many as 1.55 million Japanese in tohoku.
Later, because the Soviet Union felt that this labor force was not enough, the Japanese government agreed to arrest some ordinary Japanese as compensation and pay them to the Soviets.
So at that time, Japan used deception to say that it was necessary to send some notice or proof to the Japanese who had been Japanese soldiers, or to send something under any other pretext, so that the Japanese who received the news would go there and get these things.
When they reached the ground, they were taken prisoner and stuffed onto the train to Siberia.
This is recorded in a memoir of a Japanese soldier in World War II, titled "The Man Who Came Back Alive."
According to the description, the protagonist Kenji one day in his prisoner of war camp (still in the northeast did not depart), found that these people in military uniforms, mixed with some guys wearing clogs, kimono, obviously not soldiers.
Later, I learned that these guys were all deceived, and one of them was more sad, he took these things for his wife, and as a result, when he got to the ground, he was caught here, and his nose was crooked.
He said that he wanted to sue the guy who published the fake news, but he didn't know it, and for a long time after that, he didn't have this opportunity, of course, if he wanted to sue later, he would have to come back alive from Siberia.
Why? Among these six hundred thousand prisoners of war, this Qian'er was in a good position.
The reason was that the Soviets had captured these prisoners of war and were going to be sent to serve on the Siberian plateau, and at this point, this Qianji was sick and could not go, so he did not catch up with the earliest group.
After this Qian'er's illness was completely cured, he had caught up with almost the last few waves.
Here we must explain that the earlier you set off, the worse the place you go to, and the higher the probability of death.
You said that he was able to come back alive because he went late and the place he was given was fine, in Chita, the capital of Siberia.
According to Kenji's recollection, he went to Chita and saw a stone stele left by the Japanese invasion of Siberia.
This is irony! Now Kenji has become a prisoner of war and has come to the edge of this stone monument again.
Of course, when Kenji came here, the first year was also worse, and the second year was much better.
Why do you say this humble two? Xiaobian is to tell the big guys that in fact, Japanese prisoners of war go to Siberia to build railways and cut wood, not to say that the treatment is the same, it is also divided into places, and the treatment of bad environment naturally cannot go up.
The line of Kenji is not worth talking about, Xiaobian said to the big guy from the perspective of another Japanese soldier.
This man was Yukiichi Tomura, who was originally a student of the seventh term of the Manchurian National University, and he was a recruit who was forcibly recruited and was conscripted as a second national soldier.
The Japanese prisoners of war who had been captured at that time had always thought that they had been captured, and it was remarkable that the Soviet Union would have to send them back to Japan in the end.
So why is there such a statement? Because the Potsdam Proclamation was also known to the Japanese, they felt that the Soviet Union would act according to this proclamation and send them back.
In fact, wow, the Potsdam Proclamation has always existed, but the Japanese have never taken this thing seriously, and now they are prisoners, to the point of remembering such an announcement.
And this idea will continue until they reach their final destination.
At that time, this Tomura Koichi also thought so, so after he heard the final battle broadcast of their family's emperor on the radio, he did not take off his military uniform and stayed in the army.
He regretted this, because he became one of the Napo who went to Siberia.
When they were taken to the train, they still had the idea of returning to Japan.
At that time, those train cars were made of rough wood nails, and the outside was painted dark red, and the local people in the northeast called these carriages Soviet crock pots.
As soon as this man went up, the nose of the door was screwed to death with thick wire, and a car window was opened on the top, and when the ventilation hole was used, the Japanese prisoners of war inside wanted to go to the toilet, and a thirty-centimeter square hole was opened on the floor inside the carriage, which was their convenient place.
On this one carriage, more than a hundred prisoners of war were hard stuffed in
Of course, along the way, it is not that there is nothing wrong and they want to escape, but they do not have to face it, the soviets have a large plate of chicken and bobosha, so there are also escapees who are killed by the Soviets.
The rest of the people can only honestly think that they will be sent back to Japan by the Soviets.
So at the beginning of these prisoners of war thought, they would go to Vladivostok and from here back to Japan.
As a result, the train that walked around along the way made them lose their sense of direction, and when they saw Lake Baikal, they thought they saw the Sea of Japan, and when they jumped up happily, they were greeted by a stop sign with Lake Baikal written on it.
Later, these Japanese prisoners of war learned that they were facing a resolution 9898 on the reception, resettlement, and labor use of Japanese prisoners of war, which of course was adopted at the Soviet Defense Committee.
Under this resolution, the distribution of these Japanese prisoners of war was refined, and you did not know that he was accurate to single digits.
No way, in the Soviet Union he needed labor, that place needed it.
If nothing else, in Siberia alone, the Soviet Union set up two hundred and sixty-seven shelters, and there were two thousand one hundred and twelve sub-camps below.
The one we mentioned earlier is one of these sub-camps.
In fact, Siberia is only one of the largest places for these prisoners of war, and there are also other places, such as Chita, Mongolia, Khabarov, etc., and there are Japanese shelters everywhere.
Thirteen thousand prisoners of war went to Ulaanbaatar, and sixteen hundred died in two years.
Well, let's not talk about other places, let's talk about Siberia.
According to a recollection by a man named Mimoto Zenmaru, they were examined when they arrived at the place, the purpose of which was to determine their health.
But the actual check is to let them strip naked, be pinched on the belly and ass.
Speaking of this, it is estimated that some friends are curious, what is this for?
They were determining the fat and thinness of the Japanese prisoners of war, after all, there was more fat on their stomachs and buttocks, and as a standard, they were drawn into three classes for these prisoners of war.
This fat is the thickest, and it is drawn into the first class, so they are the healthiest, so the heavy physical labor of what is logging, quarrying, laying rails, or using their height advantage, drilling into the mine and digging is theirs.
When these Japanese prisoners of war came, they were wearing summer clothes, and in the face of the cold of Siberia, if there was not enough exercise, the body was active, and the body was heated, then their hands and feet would be frozen, so that they would be cut off.
More exercise is still good, but the premise of exercise, there must be enough food consumption, not enough food consumption, large physical exercise will be fatal.
Apparently, Japanese prisoners of war did not get enough food, so the food sources of Japanese prisoners of war were diverse, such as rats, frogs and snakes.
So much so that in a place called the Anguilian Shelter, the following year, the Soviets discovered that they could not find a snake.
Of course, thick clothing is necessary to survive the cold, but their clothes are limited, and the only ones they wear are summer clothes that they wear with them, so that after someone dies, the clothes of these dead people become the robberies of Japanese prisoners of war.
And when robbing, it should be fast, because after a little longer, these clothes and bodies will be glued together, becoming hard and hard, and they can't take them off.
This incident was seen by the editor when watching "The Man Who Came Back Alive", and the protagonist Qianji personally experienced it.
Being sick here basically means death, and there are hospitals, but there are no antidiarrheal drugs in hospitals here, so it's the same whether you get in or out of the hospital.
Of course, not only were the Soviets guarding it, but the Japanese themselves were abusing their own people.
Let's say there's a guy named Yoshimura, and the big guy knows it's a Japanese guy who's the captain of the prisoner-of-war shelter in the wool factory northwest of Ulaanbaatar.
He invented a punishment called praying for the dawn.
How does this work? He decreed that the prisoners of war in his custody should get up at half past four every day, and before breakfast could be eaten, everyone must pull back two logs from two kilometers away from the mountain.
After breakfast, it was eight hours of work, and it was nine o'clock in the evening.
When it came time to finish counting the tasks, if anyone didn't finish, Yoshimura would strip the person naked, tie him to a tree, and let him stand where he prayed for dawn.
Of course, in the face of the cold weather, these guys who are punished and pray will not be frozen to death until dawn.
Of course, there is not only one such phenomenon.
Just give a list of data and you'll know what it means.
A man named Murayama Tokio counted forty-six thousand three hundred dead prisoners of war.
The mortality rate for officers of the first general here is only 1.5%, the mortality rate for subordinate non-commissioned officers is 8.3%, and the mortality rate for ordinary soldiers is 90.2%.
Of course, there were still many prisoners of war who eventually returned to Japan, reaching 510,000.