The heroic deeds of the Nanjing Massacre

1. Miss Hua, the patron saint of Jinling Girls' School

Saved more than 10 thousand female compatriots from humiliation. Her original name is Minnie Vautrin. After arriving in China, she named herself "Hua Qun", and everyone affectionately called her "Miss Hua". Before the Nanjing Massacre broke out, Hua Qun had devoted herself to women's education in China. Until 1937, the Japanese war of aggression against China broke out in an all-round way, and the atmosphere in Nanjing, the capital of the Republic of China, became more and more tense.

She has to face the most important choice in life. Although there were countless opportunities to choose to return to China, she refused. Until the end, even the faculty and staff left, and Golden Girl University temporarily moved to Chengdu, but vautrin chose to stay. In order to protect their harbor, vautrin and 15 international friends spontaneously organized the "Nanjing Safe Zone International Committee".

Use Golden Girl University as a refugee safety center. The report said, "During the war, more than 200,000 refugees were accommodated in 25 refugee camps in the security zone. As the only refuge dedicated to women and children, Golden Women's Refugee Camp accommodated13,000 women and children during the peak period. " After the Japanese army entered the city, they raped and plundered everywhere, ignoring the signs of American churches and the notices of international security zones.

They forced their way in through the side door, climbed over the wall to enter the school, and even climbed over the low wall of the school at night. In the unlit building, they groped upstairs and downstairs and raped whoever they met. Vautrin automatically assumed the responsibility of protecting10,000 women and children. She said that Jinling Women's Hospital is my home and I will never leave.

While inviting foreign men serving in the "international security zone" to take turns to watch the vigil, she faced this group of animals more ferocious than wild animals, dealt with them and took back China women from them. Japanese soldiers savagely slapped her in the face and threatened her with bloody bayonets, and she endured. Not only protect women and children, but also protect China soldiers who come to take refuge.

She made the female refugees accommodated in the campus of Golden Women's University come forward to recognize their ancestors and return to their ancestors, and also saved more than 100 China soldiers. However, in the face of more and more help groups and lack of resources, she was troubled by the brutal Japanese army day and night, especially when she had to make difficult choices.

2. Recording Japanese atrocities with a video camera: john rabe

German businessman John rabe used his special position and influence to save the lives of about 250,000 people in China. During this period, he recorded the atrocities witnessed by the Japanese army in his diary. Rabe's diary is an important historical material of the Nanjing Massacre.

1937 65438+February 24th-the 10th day after the fall of Nanjing, but I want to witness these atrocities with my own eyes, so that I can tell them as a witness in the future. You can't keep silent about such cruel atrocities!

The members of these international committees used their position to turn the Daoshengtang church, which belongs to the United States and is not allowed to be invaded by Japanese troops, into a refuge for refugees. When escorting the wounded, Maggie took pains to personally follow the ambulance at any time to prevent the Japanese from making any mistakes.

However, after the fall of Nanking on February 3rd, 65438, the Japanese army began to make things difficult for the supply of resources in the security zone in every way, and even used the "transfer scheme" to distract the attention of westerners, then broke into the security zone and continued to kill China civilians and soldiers. Maggie was completely angry at the Japanese army's bottomless brutality. He decided to record all this and let the world remember this history forever.

Pastor Maggie resolutely picked up his Bell 16 mm camera and used it to record the heinous crimes committed by the Japanese army in Nanjing at the risk of persecution when photography was banned by the Japanese army. 1938 65438+1On October 23rd, Fitch, another member closely watched by the Japanese army, was allowed to leave Nanjing.

Because the secretly filmed films may be discovered by the Japanese army at any time, Maggie gave four films and a precious video with a total length of 105 minutes to Fitch, hoping that he could send the films to a safe place. Fitch carefully hid the film in the lining of his wool coat, escaped the Japanese search and left Nanjing with it. Subsequently, the film was sent to Shanghai overnight by German Kruger.

Kodak Company in Shanghai made four copies. Soon after, this precious video shot by Maggie and escorted by many people was made public and shocked the world.

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Historical background:

It is a war crime and a crime against humanity committed by the Japanese invaders in the early days of War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, China, such as mass slaughter, rape, arson and robbery. The climax of Japanese atrocities from 1937 to Nanjing+13 in February, lasted for six weeks and lasted for more than forty days. It was not until February 1938 that the order in Nanjing began to improve.

According to the relevant judgments and investigations of the Far East International Military Tribunal and the Nanjing Military Tribunal after World War II, more than 200,000 or even more than 300,000 civilians and prisoners of war in China were killed by the Japanese, about 20,000 women in China were raped by the Japanese, and one third of Nanjing was set on fire by the Japanese, resulting in countless property losses.

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