The real pictures of the Nanjing Massacre are too tragic to be selected here as individual pictures that can be examined.
The truth makes people even more congested.
In Nanjing on December 13, 1937, an eight-year-old girl was hiding in a quilt trembling in a house where the Japanese army was killing her relatives.
She cried in fear, stabbed a bayonet into the bed, she was stabbed three times, she passed out, and when she woke up, she only heard the cries of her 4-year-old sister.
At this time, Nanjing is crying, and Nanjing is bleeding at this moment.
How inhumane was that horrific massacre, and how could it be obliterated and forgotten!
Nanjing Massacre Memorial
Nanjing, which fell into the clutches of the Japanese army.
After the End of the Battle of Songhu in November 1937, after the Japanese army occupied Shanghai, they attacked Nanjing in three ways.
At this time, the Kuomintang government was in a panic, and it was still wavering whether to fight or withdraw. In the face of the strong offensive of the Japanese army, the troops who were defeated from the Songhu battlefield and the people fleeing from nearby counties and cities all flocked to the city of Nanjing, which was the capital of the Nationalist government at that time.
At this time, the city of Nanjing was already besieged and trapped, but the Nationalist Nanjing defense line was quickly defeated by the Japanese army.
The Kuomintang government issued a decision to move Chongqing, and for a time the people of Nanjing fled.
But how did Nanjing, which had a million people at that time, evacuate all at once?
On December 13, 1937, the Japanese army invaded the city of Nanjing, and more than 600,000 people still remained in Nanjing, which had a permanent population of one million.
The Japanese army invaded Nanjing
The Japanese army, which intended to make a quick decision and comprehensively occupy China, also suffered heavy losses on the Songhu battlefield, and the Japanese army invading China that invaded Nanjing did not carry supplies.
In order to improve the morale of the Japanese army and to loot supplies, the Japanese army issued an order to let the soldiers snatch the supplies in the city of Nanjing.
But a group of hungry wolves armed to the teeth, after opening the shackles, immediately transformed into inhuman animals!
Massacres, rapes,...
For more than forty days and nights, the city of Nanjing has fallen into hell.
Two children alone for 14 days.
Nanjing City, No. 5 Nanxin Junction.
"Bang! bang! bang! ”
There was an increasingly fierce knock at the gate, and the family hiding in the house was filled with fear.
"It's the Japanese devils coming!"
The city was filled with gunfire, and the landlord knew he couldn't hide from it and went to the door to check on the situation.
"Snap!"
30 Japanese soldiers rushed in and shot the landlord, and there were nine members of Xia Shuqin's family in the house.
"Please, don't kill my family!"
Xia Shuqin's father knelt down in front of the Japanese army and begged the Japanese to spare his family, but all he responded was a gunshot.
"Ah!"
The Xia family was frightened and fled around, but disaster had already struck.
Xia Shuqin's mother hid under the table with her 1-year-old sister in her arms, and a group of Japanese soldiers dragged her out.
This 1-year-old child was captured by the Japanese army and fell to the ground fiercely!
The Japanese soldiers rushed up and, after raping her mother, stabbed her to death with a bayonet.
Xia Shuqin hid in the bed of the bed and shivered unceasingly, she didn't know what was wrong with the world...
In the next room, the Japanese wanted to rape her two sisters, two girls aged 16 and 14.
The elderly grandfather and grandmother desperately tried to stop them, but they were killed by Japanese soldiers.
After being brutally tortured by the Japanese, the two weak girls were stabbed to death with bayonets.
"Uh huh..."
A scream in her ear made Xia Shuqin cry out in fright, and then she felt something stuck on her back and passed out.
When she woke up again, Xia Shuqin, who had been stabbed three times in the back by the Japanese army, was heard by the cries of her 4-year-old sister, and the house was full of the bodies of her relatives.
The two children stood by their relatives, crying loudly.
Their mother would not get up again, and no one in Nanjing would be able to come over.
Drinking the water stored in the water tank and eating the food left at home, Xia Shuqin and her sister lived together for 14 days next to the remains of their relatives.
That nine-year-old girl with a tragic fate.
In Tangshan Village, a suburb of Nanjing, nine-year-old Lei Guiying hid in a cellar in fear.
It was getting dark, and Lei Guiying, who was thirsty and hungry, quietly ran home and began to cook on the fire.
"Woo Sis..."
The smoke from the cooking smoke attracted two Japanese soldiers, who saw the little girl cooking and pressed her to the ground and raped her.
However, this was only the beginning of the little girl's tragic fate.
A few days later, Lei Guiying was playing with a few little girls at home, and six Japanese soldiers broke in.
These delicate little flowers were ruthlessly trampled by the Japanese!
Since then, the young girl has lost count of how many times she has been raped by the Japanese, whether at home or in the wild.
Lei Guiying, who was on topsy-turvy on the ship of destiny, longed to reach the other shore quickly, but the next stop of this ship was stopped in hell!
At the age of 13, Lei Guiying was tricked into going to the Japanese comfort station. Compared with the previous rape by the Japanese army, the Chinese women in the comfort station no longer have the right to choose their destiny.
Japanese soldiers came every day, at least three or four Japanese soldiers, and sometimes there were more than a dozen a day.
The insulting Chinese comfort women are also resisting. For those who dared to resist, the Japanese army beat them with the butts of their guns and stabbed them with bayonets, and in their eyes, these Chinese comfort women were just tools to vent.
People are constantly being tortured to death, and new Chinese girls are constantly being replenished!
A Chinese girl who fell into the clutches of the Japanese army
The sentimentality of the years, the suffering of the memory.
As the years passed, some history vanished, and some history remained heavy and unforgettable.
It is December 13 of the same year, and it is the National Day of Commemoration for the Victims of the Nanjing Massacre.
300,000 people were killed and 20,000 rapes were committed.
The numbers are undoubtedly cold, but history is bitter.
But Japan is indifferent to the perpetrators of the massacre, avoiding the fact and sincerely apologizing to the victims and their families.
"The war of aggression has been going on for decades, and the Japanese don't have to apologize endlessly."
What Japan wants is such a ridiculous voice, Chinese wants a sincere attitude, a remembrance of the dead, a maintenance of peace, and a spurn of war.
In Nanjing that day, 19-year-old Li Xiuying was seven months pregnant and hid in a basement in the Nanjing International Safety Zone.
However, the security zone could not completely stop the atrocities committed by the Japanese, and three Japanese soldiers broke in and wanted to rape Li Xiuying. Li Xiuying refused to comply, and she fought with the Japanese soldiers.
The Japanese soldiers stabbed her thirty-seven times in a row.
Li Xiuying was admitted to the American Church Hospital in Nanjing at the time, and was lucky to survive after being rescued, but the child in her belly left her forever.
In the face of this deliberately forgotten history, many survivors of the Nanjing Massacre, as well as Chinese comfort women, bravely stood up and told the history they personally experienced.
But this history was attacked by some Japanese.
Angry old man Li Xiuying
In 1998, the Japanese author Toshio Matsumura wrote a book, "The Great Questions of the Nanjing Massacre", in which he questioned that Li Xiuying, who was alive in 1998, was a "false witness" and not Li Xiuying at the time of the Nanjing Massacre.
Records of the Nanjing Massacre: Two books from 1997.
The year 1997 is of particular significance to the historical record of the Nanjing Massacre.
There were two written copies of this year, one is John Rabe's "Rabe's Diary" and the other is Zhang Chunru's "Nanjing Massacre".
Johann Rabe, the German, was a witness to the Nanjing Massacre and the savior of the 250,000 surviving refugees in the Nanjing Massacre.
As Chairman of the International Committee for the Nanjing Safe Zone during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, he, together with other international friends, established a safe zone of less than 4 square kilometers.
In this small area,
More than 250,000 Chinese survived.
In July 1997, Zhang Chunru wrote "Nanjing Atrocities", which awakened the memory of the history of the Nanjing Massacre in the West and the Chinese world.
Prior to this, Japan's war of aggression against China seemed to fade from the memory of World War II for Westerners.
However, on November 9, 2004, Zhang Chunru chose to commit suicide, as she wrote in her suicide note:
"I feel like I'm being targeted by the CIA or something else."
"I was being followed down the street and couldn't face the pain and suffering of the future."
The record of this historical atrocity undoubtedly gave her unspeakable repression, and those who deliberately blackened the Nanjing Massacre gave her a potential threat.
Zhang Chunru
About history, about the future.
In 1984, only 61 survivors remained registered with the Nanjing Victims' Assistance Association for the Japanese Invasion of China.
Survivors of the Nanjing Massacre
Documenting the Nanjing Massacre is a statement of history.
Perhaps the hatred can fade, but the future should not be forgotten.
It tells us that to fall behind is to be beaten, and to make the tragedy not repeat itself!