As we all know, one of the important reasons for the outbreak of the Second World War was the rise of fascist states, represented by Nazi Germany, the Italian Social Republic and the Japanese Empire, which imposed war on the people of the world and brought great disasters to many countries in the world.
Less than a hundred years after the end of World War II, the smoke of the war has not yet dissipated, but the original three fascist countries were "treated differently" by the people of the world, Italy does not say, when it first surrendered, Japan and Germany invaded in Asia and Europe respectively, burning and looting everywhere they went, committing heinous crimes!
But why is it that the people of the world are now condemning Japan more and rarely mentioning Germany?
The root cause lies in the different attitudes of the two countries towards history
Germany's "confession of guilt" attitude is very good, unconditional surrender, the reparation is the reparation, the disbandment of the army is disbanded, there is no objection to the trial made by the Allies, and in the years that followed, the German government and the people are constantly reflecting and repenting of the crimes they have committed, the most famous of which is the German Chancellor's "shocking kneeling"!
According to the People's Daily, in December 1970, on the coldest day in Eastern Europe after heavy snowfall, then Federal German Chancellor Willy Brandt braved the bitter cold wind to come to the Monument to the Jewish Victims in Warsaw, and after laying a wreath on the monument, he solemnly bowed his head, suddenly knelt down on his legs, and prayed: "God forgive us, may the suffering souls be at peace."
Brandt's kneeling shocked the world, and the people of the world praised "the German Chancellor kneels, the German people stand up"!
Compared with Germany, Japan is somewhat "shameless", not only refusing to admit the crimes it has committed, but even wantonly distorting and falsifying history.
An "old photo"
Set in Nanjing in 1937, the photograph depicts a Japanese soldier carrying an old Chinese woman through a "rain of bullets and bullets" with a "benevolent" smile on her face.
According to Japanese textbooks, the photograph was taken "inadvertently" by a Japanese war correspondent in Nanjing in 1937.
As we all know, after the Japanese army captured Nanjing in December 1937, it carried out a four-week massacre, killing more than 300,000 Chinese soldiers and civilians, and the tragedy shocked the world, which we called the "Nanjing Massacre".
And Japan still refuses to admit that the Nanjing Massacre was their doing, and this so-called "old photo" is to "whitewash" the Japanese army.
Since this is the case, let's analyze this "old photo", first of all, the posture of the Japanese army in the photo is very problematic, if any person is carrying an old lady, the back must be bent, otherwise the person on the back will slide down, and to shuttle through the "gun forest and bullet rain", the face will inevitably show a nervous look, and then look at the Japanese army in the photo, not only the waist is straight, but also the face is showing a "virgin-like" smile, which is really "eye-opening"!
Secondly, according to the "General History of China", although as early as 1912, the provisional president of the Republic of China, Sun Yat-sen, issued a "ban on foot binding" order, but judging by the age of the old lady in the photo, she must have been born before the 1990s, when Chinese women were foot-binding, and then look at the old lady in the photo, a pair of large footboards looks almost forty yards, how is this possible?
Even if the old lady was "maverick" and did not wrap her little feet, why were her feet upside down and her heels running to the tiptoe position?
Finally, in this "old photo" that is said to have been taken in 1937, there is a steel structure bridge, which was a rarity in China at that time, and this steel structure bridge only existed in Beijing and Shanghai, and Nanjing was not in the condition to build such a bridge at that time!
In summary, it is obvious that this photo was synthesized in the later stage of Japan with "PS" technology, but the level of this "PS" is really a little poor, and just such a photo is also full of loopholes in "P", not only did not wash the Japanese army, but increased the joke in vain!
brief summary:
A country's attitude toward history reflects that country's foreign policy, and the reason why Japan refuses to face history squarely is to change its current "deformed" diplomatic state.
Although Japan was rapidly rebuilt after World War II with the support of the United States, it was also completely reduced to a pawn inserted by the United States in Asia, which made Japan, although its economy was highly developed, politically it could only follow the United States in the lead, and diplomacy could only follow in the footsteps of the United States.
In the eyes of the Japanese, the reason why they had such a fate was because of the defeat in World War II, so they did everything possible to deny that period of history, and even falsified textbooks.
But they forget that only by facing history squarely and respecting history can we gain respect for history, and if Japan can "introspect" like Germany, I am afraid that it will not be the situation today.
References: People's Daily, General History of China