During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, many current senior Kuomintang officials defected to the enemy and became traitors. Among them, more than 20 people above the level of the supplementary central committee members defected to the enemy, and even more as many as hundreds of provincial and departmental officials defected to the enemy. Below, Xiaobian will briefly introduce the ten people with higher levels to everyone.
I. Wang Jingwei (Wang Zhaoming)
Wang Jingwei, a native of Panyu, Guangdong, was born in 1883. He was Chairman of the National Government from 1924 to 1927. When he surrendered to the enemy in December 1938, he served as vice president of the Kuomintang and chief executive of the National Government. He died in Japan in 1944.
2. Chen Gongbo
Chen Gongbo, a native of Nanhai, Guangdong, was born in 1892. In 1939, when he defected to the enemy as a traitor, he served as the minister of industry of the National Government and a member of the Central Executive Committee. In 1946, he was shot by the Nationalist government for conspiracy to commit conspiracy with the enemy state.
3. Zhou Fohai
Zhou Fohai, a native of Woxi Village, was born in 1897. When he surrendered to the enemy in September 1938, he served as the deputy director of the Attendant Office of the Chairman of the National Government and the head of the Propaganda Department. In 1947, he was sentenced to life imprisonment for conspiring with the enemy country and attempting to rebel against his own country, and died of illness in 1948 in Nanjing Tiger Bridge Prison.
4. Chu Minyi
Chu Minyi, a native of Huzhou City, Zhejiang Province, was born in 1884. Before surrendering to the enemy in 1939, he served as secretary general of the Executive Yuan and member of the Central Supervision Commission of the Kuomintang. In 1946, he was shot by the Nationalist government for adultery.
5. Chen Qun
Chen Qun, a native of Tongfang Town, Changting County, Fujian Province, was born in 1890. Before surrendering to the enemy in 1939, he served as the parliamentary secretary of the Ministry of the Interior of the National Government and an alternate member of the Central Executive Committee. After Japan's unconditional surrender in August 1945, he committed suicide in fear of his crime.
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Zeng Xing, female, from Fuzhou, Fujian Province, born in 1882. When he defected to the enemy in 1939, he was the head of the Women's Department of the Central Party Department of the National Government. After Japan announced its unconditional surrender in 1945, it was not held criminally responsible and disappeared.
7. Zeng Zhongming
Zeng Zhongming, a native of Minxian County, Fujian Province, was born in 1896 and was the younger brother of Zeng Xing. In December 1938, when he surrendered to the enemy, he served as the deputy director of the Kuomintang Railway Department and an alternate member of the Central Executive Committee. On March 21, 1939, he was assassinated by National Government agents in Hanoi, Vietnam.
VIII. Wu Kaixian
Wu Kaixian, also known as Qiren, was born in 1899 in Jiehe Lane, Fengjing Town, Jinshan County, Shanghai. When he defected to the enemy in 1939, he was deputy director of the Organization Department of the Central Committee of the National Government. After Japan announced its unconditional surrender in 1945, the Nationalist government came forward to confirm that Wu Kaixian had been ordered to surrender to the enemy to carry out his mission, and was still elected as a member of the Kuomintang Central Executive Committee. He fled to Taiwan in 1949 with Chiang Kai-shek's defeat and died in Taipei in 1990.
IX. Xu Xiuzhi
Xu Xiuzhi, formerly known as Zhuo Ran, the character Xixi, the late owner of the Baiyan Room, was born in 1881. Before surrendering to the enemy in 1939, he was deputy minister of the interior of the National Government. After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, he was not held criminally responsible and died in Beijing in 1954.
After the surrender of Japan in 1945, Miao Bin was arrested by the Nationalist government for adultery and sentenced to death. He was shot on May 21, 1946 at Shizikou No. 3 Prison in Suzhou.
In addition to the above ten people, senior officials of the National Government who defected to the enemy and became traitors during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression included Chen Bijun (member of the Central Supervision Commission), He Shizhen (director of the Anhui Provincial Department of Civil Affairs and alternate member of the Central Executive Committee), Chen Zhongfu (mayor of Qingdao), Enkebatu (central supervisory commission), Gu Zhongxuan (central supervisory commissioner), Pu Dong (alternate central supervisory commissioner), and others.