What was the treatment of the Japanese army after its unconditional surrender? Better than the Chinese soldiers, the people are envious
Counting from the Lugou Bridge Incident in 1937, China's War of Resistance has entered its eighth year, with the dropping of two atomic bombs by the United States and the dispatch of millions of Soviet Red Army troops to the northeast, Japan has finally reached the end and end. After the Japanese Kwantung Army was defeated by the Red Army, the Japanese Emperor announced his unconditional surrender. On August 15, 1945, China's War of Resistance was victorious. The Japanese soldiers in China laid down their weapons and became Prisoners of War in China.
According to statistics, there are still more than three million Japanese troops in China, including soldiers and some expatriates and members of the so-called pioneer regiment. Although these Japanese soldiers laid down their weapons, they were huge in number, and how to manage and repatriate them was a big problem. What many people are concerned about is, how are these Japanese prisoners of war treated?
Was it treated like the Kwantung Army as hard labor, or was it humiliated by the victorious powers, and was it insulted? What surprises people is that these millions of Japanese people are treated quite well, and those who do not know think that they are victorious countries?
Japanese soldiers are also very afraid in their hearts, many people have committed serious crimes in China, burning and looting these things are basically the standard of every Japanese soldier. Now that he was a prisoner of the Chinese, Chinese what would he do if he killed a few Japanese people and got angry?
However, the fears of the Japanese soldiers were superfluous, and the Chinese government soon announced the preferential treatment of the Japanese. The practice of revenge with virtue has even won praise from Japanese newspapers.
China has set up a special prisoner-of-war shelter organization to provide generous food to the Japanese unconditionally, strictly prohibit insulting the Japanese, send troops to protect them, and provide all kinds of daily necessities in large quantities.
Not only that, the Japanese soldiers can even receive salaries, the same salary treatment as Chinese soldiers, considering that many Chinese troops do not have sufficient supplies and ordnance, such as some local warlord troops and miscellaneous troops, then these Japanese prisoners of war receive better salaries than the Chinese army.
These costs were borne by the Nationalist government at the time, although there was a clause that said that Japanese reparations would include these costs. However, after the Chinese wave of the hand, they did not ask the Japanese for a penny of indemnity, which became the wages paid by China to the Japanese prisoners of war.
The treatment of prisoners of war is estimated that only China in the world has done this, there is no way, and it is a Chinese tradition to complain with virtue, but unfortunately, the Japanese will not be grateful to Dade.
Beginning with the unconditional surrender of the Japanese army, it took a full year to repatriate these millions of Japanese prisoners of war, and the cost of this was an incalculable astronomical amount. After eight years of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression in China, the people's lives were difficult and inflationary, and in order to resist the war, the people at the bottom almost lost their homes and their wealth was looted by inflation.
Countless starving people looked at the treatment of Japanese soldiers and prisoners of war, presumably envious and jealous!
Fortunately, when the Japanese army boarded the ship and returned home, guns and ammunition and things looted from China were left behind, including gold and jewelry, works of art and other valuables, which can also be regarded as preserving some wealth for China.
It should be noted that only the Japanese prisoners of war in question were treated in this way, and the Japanese Kwantung Army, which was wiped out by the Soviet Red Army, did not have such a good thing. Hundreds of thousands of Japanese Kwantung Army prisoners of war were escorted by the Soviets to the freezing Siberia to work as coolies, killing tens of thousands.