On December 25, 1949, a tragedy occurred at the Shijiazhuang Bethune International Peace Hospital.
A Japanese doctor was shot dead by Chinese division-level cadres.
At that time, it had been more than two months since the founding of New China, and the War of Resistance Against Japan had long ended, so why was the Japanese doctor shot and killed? Who was the one who shot him?
Time goes back to the day of the tragedy, when Japanese doctor Tsuzawa Katsumi came to the ward of Sha Fei, a Chinese division-level cadre, as usual. Tsuzawa Katsu checked Sha Fei's health, then prescribed him two medicines and instructed: "
Rest well and take your medicine on time. ”
After saying that, Tsuzawa Katsu turned to leave, he was completely unaware that Sha Fei behind him had raised his gun to him.
"Bang! bang! bang! A few gunshots were the last sounds Tsuzawa had heard in his life. At the age of 42, he passed away forever on this day.
After the tragedy, the two guards around Sha Fei immediately controlled him. What the hell is going on? Why did Sha Fei shoot the doctor who treated him? Puzzled and shocked, the guards reported the matter to the ministry. The North China Military Region immediately arrested Sha Fei.
Nie Shuai painfully signed the verdict of "shooting Sha Fei"
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Sha Fei was executed in 1950 at the age of 38. A tragedy, two living lives lost, two families fell into the abyss. Before being executed, Sha Fei said: "
Japanese people are damned!
He looked very angry, and his mind was full of pictures of the Japanese army doing nothing wrong in China during the War of Resistance.
He considered all Japanese to be "national enemies." ”
Sha Fei was wrong. The Japanese soldiers who once invaded China were indeed all damned!
However, in 1945, Tsuzawa Joined the Eighth Route Army as a doctor and supported the Liberation War. He didn't deserve to die.
In 1986, the Military Court of the Beijing Military Region re-ruled on Sha Fei's case that year, and the verdict was:
The original judgment is revoked. The state restored Sha Fei's military and party membership.
So, since Jin Zesheng should not die, why did the Military Court of the Beijing Military Region revoke the original judgment? What really happened back then? The curator of this issue will take you to talk about this matter. Interested friends may wish to click on the following, so that it is convenient to review the past highlights, and will not miss the latest content.
War correspondent, romantic idealistic soldier
In order to truly understand Sha Fei and deeply analyze the real reason why he shot Jin Zesheng, we need to understand Sha Fei Na first
It is full of romance, revolution and legend
A complex life.
On May 5, 1912, Sha Fei was born in Guangzhou to a family of drug dealers. Unlike most revolutionaries who came from poor backgrounds and fought back because of oppression, Sha Fei grew up with a superior life, he could study and play without pressure, and spent a happy childhood.
What awakened Sha Fei's patriotic feelings and guided him to the revolutionary road was Mr. Lu Xun's literary works.
When he was a teenager, Sha Fei admired Lu Xun very much and hoped to become a literary artist like Lu Xun. From Mr. Lu Xun's literary works, Sha Fei learned about patriotic, anti-imperialist, and anti-feudal democratic ideas.
And gradually awakened the revolutionary conviction, awakened the sense of responsibility for the nation.
In a given era, good literature has great power. Literary works have obvious characteristics,
It can reflect an era and convey an idea.
At the same time, literature is also artistic, and Sha Fei, who awakens his sense of national responsibility through literary works, is destined to make two achievements in his life.
One is the achievement of the revolutionary cause. One is the achievement of the artistic career. These two achievements work together to construct Sha Fei's legendary, real, and full life.
The first is the achievement of the revolutionary cause.
In 1926, at the age of 14, Sha Fei resolutely joined the army and participated in the Northern Expedition, thus entering the next stage of his life: his military career. When Sha Fei first joined the army, he stayed in the army for 5 years. Five years have passed, and Sha Fei has changed from a teenager to a strong-willed patriotic revolutionary.
Sha Fei once said to his lover:
In the future, I will also be a literary scholar like Lu Xun, shouting at an unfair and irrational society!
But soon, Sha Fei discovered that he was more interested and talented in photography than literature. After that, Sha Fei seriously studied photography and chose it
Make photography your life's work
No matter what kind of career Sha Fei is engaged in, his original intention has never changed. Picking up the camera, Sha Fei said, "I want to be a photojournalist and record history with a camera." "He photographed the suffering of the poor, the cruelty of war. He is committed to recording history, reflecting real history,
So as to help more people awaken patriotic ideals and revolutionary beliefs, and make more contributions to the nation.
After the outbreak of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression in 1937, Sha Fei resolutely decided to join the Eighth Route Army as a war correspondent. He recorded too many brutal war scenes and the vicious atrocities committed by the Japanese army in the land of China.
This made Sha Fei hate the Japanese army invading China very much, and this hatred gradually spread, causing Sha Fei to develop a certain hostility towards the entire Japanese nation.
During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Sha Fei used the camera in his hand to create thousands of photographic works. These works of his have a soul, because Sha Fei is full of emotion when shooting. As the first leader of the first photojournalism organization led by the Communist Party of China, Sha Fei made great contributions and achievements with the camera in his hand.
In October 1936,
Sha Fei photographed and published Mr. Lu Xun's last photographs, remains, funerals and other photographic works
, caused a national shock. Sha Fei's admiration for Lu Xun accompanied his entire life, and when he was executed by firing squad in 1950,
The only thing Sha Fei carried was his last photograph of Lu Xun taken in 1960.
Shoot and kill Tsuzawa Katsu, last words "The Japanese are damned!" ”
Sha Fei is a very complex person, and we cannot describe this romantic idealist in general and in a general way.
His patriotic ideals and national feelings are hot, pure, and nothing can be distorted or erased. But at the same time, Sha Fei is also a very talented artist. His achievements in photography attest to this.
Many talented artists in ancient and modern times often form their own world that is not affected by the outside world.
Sha Fei also has a "self-world." "In that world, there are brutal images of japanese troops occupying Chinese territory and persecuting Chinese people.
These pictures made Sha Fei feel humiliated, but also made him angry and impressed. In this world,
Sha Fei became extreme, believing that all Japanese people deserved to die and were "national enemies."
Perhaps Sha Fei himself did not know when the "self-world" was formed. On December 15, 1949, Sha Fei's "self-world" influenced the real world, leading to a tragedy.
That day Sha Fei was reading in his hospital bed, and in his hand was the work of Mr. Lu Xun, which he had read countless times. However, no matter how many times you watch it,
Sha Fei can always find resonance in Lu Xun's profound and sharp words.
And while reading, Sha Fei can temporarily "escape" the pain caused by tuberculosis.
In May 1948, Sha Fei was admitted to the Bethune International Peace Hospital in Shijiazhuang due to tuberculosis. There were many Japanese doctors in the hospital at that time, and Katsuzu Tsuzawa was one of them. He and his wife joined the Eighth Route Army as doctors after the end of the War of Resistance Against Japan. Later, in the Liberation War, Jin Zesheng supported the Chinese People's Liberation Army and rescued many PLA soldiers.
After the founding of the People's Republic of China, Jin Zesheng was already the director of the Internal Medicine Department of The Bethune International Peace Hospital in Shijiazhuang. He is highly skilled, conscientious and responsible, and has a high reputation in the hospital. However, no one expected that Tsuzawa Katsu would suddenly be shot by Sha Fei. At that time, Sha Fei was already a division-level cadre.
On December 25, 1949, Tsuzawa Katsumi went to Sha Fei's hospital room to check on Sha Fei's condition as usual. Sha Fei was reading a book at the time, and when Jinze Katsumi came in, his expression was very calm, and he didn't look unusual.
"Rest well and take your medicine on time." After examining Sha Fei's condition, Jin zesheng prescribed him two medicines and instructed him some precautions.
Sha Fei did not react, his expression was still very calm, and he seemed to be in a trance, as if he was caught in a memory.
What was he thinking? Brutal atrocities committed by the Japanese army during the War of Resistance Against Japan? The answer was known only to Sha Fei himself. When he turned Tsuzawa katsu to leave the ward,
Suddenly, he pulled a pistol out of his trouser pocket and aimed it at Tsuzawa Katsu.
Sha Fei's two guards were stunned for a moment after seeing this scene. They didn't know why Sha Fei was holding the gun and didn't have time to react. Because before they could recover from the shock, Sha Fei had already shot.
With the "Bang! bang! Two gunshots rang out, and Tsuzawa katsu fell to the ground on the spot. Blood slowly flowed from Tsuzawa Katsumi's body, and he closed his eyes, unresponsive, and fell into a coma without knowing what was happening.
"What are you doing?" One of Sha Fei's guards asked in shock. Then the two guards immediately pounced on Sha Fei and snatched the pistol from his hand. Sha Fei immediately turned his gun and aimed it at the guards who rushed over.
Of course, Sha Fei had no intention of shooting at the guards, he just wanted to force the two men to retreat, and then make up a fatal shot in the head of Tsuzawa Katsu.
He succeeded in doing so, and Tsuzawa Katsu fell into an eternal sleep at the Bethune International Peace Hospital in Shijiazhuang.
After doing all this, Sha Fei did not make any more resistance and allowed the guards to snatch the pistol from his hand. Then Sha Fei sat on the hospital bed and waited for the next trial.
Nie Shuai endured the pain and issued the order to be shot!
After the tragedy, the North China Military Region immediately arrested Sha Fei. Sha Fei was imprisoned in the Military Justice Department of the North China Military and Political University in Shijiazhuang, and during his detention, he wrote many documents accusing Japanese doctors of attempting to murder him with chemical drugs.
But in fact, the medicine that Tsuzawa Katsu gave to Sha Fei was normal, and there was nothing wrong with it.
Perhaps the person who "attempted to murder Sha Fei" was Tsuzawa Katsu in Sha Fei's "self-world". In fact, at this time, Sha Fei's spirit was already in trouble.
Various past experiences have caused Sha Fei to suffer from "forced delusional schizophrenia". However, because the medical level at that time was not advanced enough, the hospital did not detect Sha Fei's mental illness. 、
After Nie Shuai learned about the incident of "Sha Fei shooting jin Zesheng", he had mixed feelings in his heart for a while. He was shocked, angry, and at the same time a little sad. Nie Shuai asked, "Is Sha Fei mentally normal?" "The investigation concluded that:
Sha Fei is nervous and mentally normal. Obviously, this conclusion was wrong, but the medical conditions at that time were like this, and Nie Shuai had to accept this fact.
There was a special revolutionary friendship between Nie Shuai and Sha Fei, which was why he felt extremely angry and sad. But in Nie Shuai's heart,
Law and discipline are far more important than personal feelings,
In the end, he sadly signed the verdict of "shooting Sha Fei".
On March 4, 1950, Sha Fei was executed by firing squad. Sha Fei's last words before his death were:
The Japanese are damned
！ "He hasn't come out of the hatred he once had. From beginning to end, Sha Fei has hardly changed. He still admired Mr. Lu Xun, whether it was when he went to the battlefield as a war correspondent or when he was executed.
Sha Fei's pockets contained pictures of Mr. Lu Xun.
At the same time, his heart has always been filled with hatred for the Japanese.
Objectively speaking, Sha Fei's hatred is too extreme and extreme. Unlike the frenzied Japanese invaders, Tsuzawa was a doctor, and during the Liberation War, he was
He lived and died with the Chinese People's Liberation Army and made great contributions. But Sha Fei, who suffered from mental illness, ignored this and paid the price of his life for it.
It was not until 1986 that the Military Court of the Beijing Military Region finally ascertained:
Sha Fei committed the crime in a mentally ill situation and could not control his behavior. The court revoked the original judgment that year, and the state restored Sha Fei's party and military membership.
An event has occurred, and it doesn't make much sense to focus only on the event itself. The causes and consequences of the event are important existences that are worth pondering carefully and drawing conclusions. And to know the causes and consequences of certain events, you even need to trace a person's life to find answers.
This is the case with the "Sha Fei shoots Tsuzawa Katsu" incident. Sha Fei used his camera to record too many Japanese atrocities and human tragedies. This caused Sha Fei to be greatly stimulated, forming a "self-world", and his spirit also had problems, becoming extreme and extreme. Even before he died, Sha Fei left behind "Japanese people are damned!" This last word.
However, we need to look at history objectively.
The sons and daughters of China should never and cannot forget the heinous crimes committed by the Japanese army in China. But hatred is not a "good medicine" to heal wounds, struggle and self-improvement are. My generation should shoulder this mission, always firm in faith, always strive for self-improvement!
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