"The Analects of Wei Linggong": Men with lofty ideals are benevolent, there is no survival to harm benevolence, and there is killing to become benevolent.
Killing oneself is the standard of almost every hero, and it is also the standard used by Confucianism to assess benevolence, and true people with lofty ideals will not damage benevolence and righteousness because of greed for life and fear of death, but in times of war, "capture" is unavoidable.
The Geneva Conventions are the general name of a series of international conventions on the protection of civilians and victims of war, concluded in Geneva, Switzerland, from 1864 to 1949.
The Convention on the Treatment of Prisoners of War was first proposed in the Second Hague Convention of 29 July 1899, the Convention respecting the Laws and Customs of War on Land, and the Second Geneva Convention of 1929, the Convention relating to the Treatment of Prisoners of War, perfected the description of the humane treatment and protection of prisoners of war.
However, Japan completely shredded the treaty, and Germany did not care about the restrictions of the treaty in the later stages of the war, but the Allies gave preferential treatment to the prisoners of war, and Australia hated Japan very much during World War II, but they still chose to give preferential treatment, which caused a prison escape.
Couran is not Australia's national treasure womba "koala", but a tourist town located in the central west of New South Wales, the most popular is not the scenery, but the wine, Coran has been growing grapes since the 19th century, and after 1970, it became a well-known wine producing area in New South Wales, but during World War II, a Coran prisoner of war camp was established here.
During World War II, Kaulan was still a sparsely populated agricultural area, so the Allies established a large prisoner of war camp that held more than 20,000 prisoners of war, mainly Italian and Japanese soldiers, mostly the navy, and the air force, which was also divided into regions depending on the type of service.
Even more infuriating to Australia was a photo, Australian intelligence officer George Leonard was captured by the Japanese on the island of New Guinea, he was not only tortured, but also dragged to the beach to be executed.
So much so that during the New Guinea War, 200,000 Japanese troops wanted to surrender, but Australia refused, and only about 20,000 returned to Japan in this war, but Australia still gave humane protection and treatment to the captured prisoners of war.
The Japanese soldiers in the Kaulan prisoner of war camp could not only play baseball, sumo wrestling, and mahjong, but also provide fish for the Japanese in terms of diet, while the captured Japanese soldiers only needed to perform some simple manual work such as cutting down trees and planting land, which was much more humane than the Japanese army, but there were still people who were dissatisfied, so they planned to escape from prison together.
His name is Toshima Ichi, a Japanese pilot, he was captured on February 24, 1942, he was the first batch of prisoners of war, in the next two years, 1,104 Japanese soldiers were imprisoned here, as the oldest "qualified" prisoner of war, the weight of his words was very heavy, and the preferential treatment given by Australia did not satisfy them, but they did not dare to riot.
Until 1944, the Cowland prison was overcrowded, and the Australian side planned to transfer a part of the Japanese army, which made Toshima feel a crisis, he thought that this was the Australian army to "attack" them, because they had often done this before, Toshima Yi gathered Japanese prisoners of war, and everyone agreed that they planned to kill them in a desperate way.
They found all the weapons they could find, each of them hid a dinner knife and spoon, Toshima took a baseball bat and commanded the rioting Japanese soldiers to rush out of the prison, but they didn't expect that just after opening the door of the prisoner of war camp, more than a dozen Australian soldiers with heavy machine guns were guarding the door.
The crazy Japanese army did not stop, the Australian army gave an order, and the bullets were shot out, but the Japanese army scattered the direction of escape, some people climbed over the barbed wire, and a total of 500 Japanese soldiers escaped from the riot, although they were completely free, but they escaped and looked, completely dumbfounded.
Near Kauran was an endless wasteland, not even a jungle, it was very hot during the day, cold at night, and there was no food, the Australian army immediately launched a search, and the soldiers who did not want to return to the prisoner of war camp resisted again, and the Australian army lost two soldiers, which made them determined not to relent.
The Japanese army who resisted all fell under the gun, only 200 people were captured alive, after this riot, the Australian army canceled many preferential conditions, until the end of the war, in the 60s of the last century, the Japanese economy began to recover, the establishment of exchanges, Japan also invested in the construction of a Japanese-style garden in Kaolan.
The Japanese built a cemetery for the dead prisoners of war in the garden, and if they had stayed in the prisoner of war camp in Toshima, they might have been able to return to Japan alive, but during World War II, Japan adhered to the spirit of suicide and was proud of death.