China's modern history is a history of humiliation, and in China's modern history, Japan has caused deep disasters to the Chinese nation. In the 14-year War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, the entire Land of China was devastated and mourned, and Japanese soldiers wantonly slaughtered Chinese people, creating countless tragic cases.
In Shanxi Province, after the War of Resistance Against Japan, several "mass graves" were found, and these "mass graves" were near abandoned coal mines, and the largest number of "mass graves" had more than 60,000 white bones.
Part of the site of the Datong Mass Grave in Shanxi
Yes, this is the atrocity of the Japanese army. A very important purpose of Japan's invasion of China was to plunder China's resources, develop the Japanese economy, and alleviate the great economic crisis of the 1930s. Japan invaded and occupied the northeast after the "918 Incident" and plundered the coal and iron ore resources of the northeast.
But Japan's ambitions are not limited to this, after the Lugou Bridge Incident, Japan occupied Shanxi, Japan has long known that Shanxi is a treasure house rich in coal, so in order to plunder Shanxi's coal resources, Japan from Henan, Hebei, Shandong and other provinces to coax and forcibly capture farmers to Shanxi.
Japanese Invaders
Most of the people were sent by the Japanese army to Datong, Shanxi, and began nearly 16 hours of underground labor every day, the miners were inhumanly abused, the working environment was extremely hard, and the Japanese invaders regarded the miners as slaves to their coal resources.
According to a survivor's recollection, in the spring of 1943, the No. 4 coal mining palm of the Xinzhou Coal Mine collapsed, crushing 8 miners on the spot, including one miner who was half-cut and shouted for help. The Japanese troops at the scene brutally stabbed the miner to death and ordered the rest of the miners to dig up the coal mining machine.
Shanxi Datong "Mass Grave"
The Japanese invaders treated the miners with terrible means, generally more than 100 miners huddled in an adobe house 30 meters long and four or five meters wide to rest, the miners were sick and did not give medical treatment, and the seriously ill miners were directly thrown into the "mass grave". At that time, the wild dogs and wolves near Datong were particularly fat by eating the corpses of our compatriots.
So far, there are still 14 large "mass graves" in Shanxi, and there are more than 60,000 dead miners in the Nangou "mass graves" alone, which is also the largest one in Shanxi.
Shanxi Datong Ten Thousand People Memorial Hall
In the 1960s, the tragedy of the "mass grave" was learned by more and more people, and Shanxi also set up a special memorial hall to commemorate the dead miners, as a warning to contemporary people not to forget the national shame. Only china's growing strength can make the tragedy no longer play out.