The massacre of Chinese soldiers and innocent civilians who laid down their arms in Nanjing was the established plan of the Japanese aggressors. On the eve of the Japanese army's all-out attack on the city of Nanjing, Matsui Ishigen, commander of the Japanese-Chinese Front, said to the commanders of the four divisions of Tani shoufu, Ushijima, Nakajima, and Suematsu:
"Nanjing is the capital of China, and the occupation of Nanjing is an international event, so it is necessary to conduct a thorough study in order to carry forward Japan's military might and make China afraid." After the fall of Nanjing, tens of thousands of Chinese soldiers became prisoners of the Japanese army or laid down their weapons. Instructions on how to handle these prisoners were sent to the headquarters of the Japanese-Chinese Central Front, the Shanghai Dispatch Army, and the Headquarters of the Tenth Army, one by one. When Matsui Ishigen heard the report from the lower strata that "there were soldiers among the refugees," he categorically ordered: "Mixed soldiers should be disciplined."
The commander of the Shanghai Dispatch Army, Asakamiya Hatohiko, arrived at the Nanjing suburban headquarters on December 8, and when he received instructions from his subordinates on how to dispose of the prisoners, he issued an order signed by his personal seal: "Confidential." Kill all the captives. Destroy after reading. ”
From the dispatch of military headquarters in central China to the divisions, brigades and even brigades and squadrons, the Japanese army successively issued massacre orders. Tens of thousands of Chinese were bloodily slaughtered. The commander of the Japanese 16th Division, Nakajima Imasago, was a fierce guy who faithfully carried out the order to massacre Chinese soldiers and civilians. He recorded it in the "Diary of the Battle" in the early days of the fall of Nanjing
In recent days, most of the defeated enemy has fled into the forests and villages in the combat area of our 16th Division, among whom there are people who have escaped from the fortress of Zhenjiangxi, and prisoners can be seen everywhere, reaching a level that is difficult to collect. Because of the general policy of leaving no prisoners, it was decided to deal with them all
However, for the 1000, 500, 10000 people, it is difficult to disarm all weapons. The only way is to wait until they have completely lost their fighting spirit and line up to descend by themselves, which is more secure
It is known that Sasaki's troops alone disposed of about 15,000 people, and the captain of a squadron guarding the Taihe gate disposed of 1,300 people, which is now concentrated near the Xianhe Gate, about 7,000-8,000 people, which requires a considerable trench and is not easy to find. Therefore, it is planned to divide them into groups of 100 and 200 people, and then lure them to the appropriate place to deal with them.
Under the Japanese army's policy of massacre, not only were captured and laid down Their arms slaughtered, but also young men and women and children with calluses and shaved heads on their hands were not spared. The report provided to the International Military Tribunal for the Far East by Espee, the U.S. Deputy Consul in Nanjing, said: "Before the night of December 13 and the morning of 14 December, the atrocities occurred, first the Detachment of the Japanese Army was ordered to sweep the remaining Chinese soldiers inside the city walls and wipe them out. The Japanese army conducted a careful search of the roads and buildings in the city. All those who had been soldiers and suspicious elements were shot and killed one by one... The Japanese army hardly cared whether they had been soldiers in the past or whether they had indeed worked in the Chinese army, and anyone with the slightest suspicion of being a soldier was taken away and shot feige, who had been deputy director general of the International Committee for the Nanjing Security Zone. They had calluses and shaved heads on their hands as sufficient evidence that they had been soldiers and believed that the death penalty must be imposed. Almost everywhere we camped, we were invaded by the army, and they dragged out whoever they wanted to shoot. ”
The commander of the fourth squadron of the 23rd Infantry Regiment of the Japanese 6th Division confessed: "Under the command of Squadron Commander Oshita, I led 10 of my men and 100 of the main force of the squadron to invade the city from the breachage point, invaded 240 households of Chinese civilians with guns, arrested two Chinese women (sick, all 22 years old) and Liu Mou (male, 22 years old), a second lieutenant officer of the Anti-Japanese Army (male, 22 years old), and drove 2,400 men, women, and children of the People of Peace of China to Shimonoseki in the northeast, in the rafts on the Lower Pass and the Yangtze River, with heavy machine guns and rifles. They were massacred.
Can you imagine how tragic the situation was at that time, were these ancestors wrong, and did they die unjustly? So far they have not received an apology and compensation accordingly
And now there's a handful of Japanese who deny history and deny their crimes
Gu Shoufu, the perpetrator of the Nanjing Massacre, was tried and executed in China
The organizer of Shiro Ishii's Unit 731 did not receive the punishment it deserved after the war ,
Hisao Tani
I ordered two bronze statues one Ishii Shiro, the other is Tani Shoufu, kneeling statue, ready to be placed on October 1 in Suzhou Japanese culture street, interested friends can go together, patriotic education propaganda, mistakes committed in China must be used to kneel to apologize ,
Shiro Ishii
My ideal is to let more people know about that detailed history, and to make the victims and survivors get the compensation and apologies they deserve
Don't forget the national shame and remember history