The Japanese army forced Nanjing refugees to collect their bodies: "Don't kill" was printed on their clothes.

The terrible Nanjing Massacre turned a once prosperous ancient capital Jinling into a mountain of corpses, and the evil wind was terrible, like a hell on earth. Although the massacre took place in winter, the tortured bodies will soon rot. As soon as the weather gets warmer, rotting corpses will become hotbeds of germs, and there will be a great epidemic after the disaster. This is a law. Getting rid of thousands of bodies as soon as possible before the outbreak of the plague can not only cover up the massacre crime, but also avoid the spread of the epidemic. Japanese executives believe that it is urgent to collect bodies.

The Japanese army forced Nanjing refugees to collect their bodies.

After the massacre, for the sake of health, safety and stability, the Japanese army approved local charitable relief organizations to set up a corpse collection team to bury the bodies. At the same time, some international charities have also joined in the aftermath of collecting and burying bodies. These people who have been engaged in charity work all the year round can't stand the hasty disposal of the body, so they try their best to change clothes for the body to make it complete and put the scattered pieces together. But in this way, the process of collecting the body is very slow, and the manpower is limited, so it is impossible to undertake the heavy work of collecting the body and cleaning it up after the war.

In order to speed up the process of corpse collection, the Japanese army forced Nanjing people to form several corpse collection teams, requiring each person to handle a certain number of corpses every day. At the same time, it is stipulated that there are three ways to dispose of the body: throwing it into the Yangtze River, burying it on the spot and burning it.

A wang xing citizen who once took part in the corpse collection recalled that their family lived in Nanjing Dyehouse, near the moat, and on the other side was the ancient city wall that blocked the view. 1937 when Shanghai fell, my uncle took care of everyone: "Shanghai is too close to Nanjing to stay long, so go to the countryside to find relatives and friends." However, his father works in the telephone office and can't leave for the time being. By the end of 1 1, Wang's uncles, brothers and sisters had all left. On February 3, 65438, Nanjing was jittery and worried. My mother dragged her three children with a small bag on her back, and followed the crowd to Yimeng Gate, which leads to Shimonoseki, and squeezed out of the gate from early morning until afternoon. But at Shimonoseki Pier, out-of-control people crowded with ferries, throwing luggage, suitcases and baskets everywhere ... The boat was leaning and refugees fell into the water one after another. Soon, the tilted ship sank because of overload. ...

Mother saw this horrible scene and decided to go home and die. Passing by the telephone office in Gulou District where my father works. Left-behind staff grabbed him and handed him 500 yuan money and a letter left by his father. My father wrote that he had evacuated to Hankou with the staff of the bureau on 10 in the morning and was not allowed to go home. "Try to run for your life." This is the most crucial sentence left by my father.

The Wangs had no choice but to flee to Jiangbei. 65438+February 65438+February, Japanese troops invaded Nanjing from complex positions, and Nanjing Kuomintang troops retreated. More than 300,000 people in Nanjing were massacred by the Japanese invaders in the most cruel and barbaric way. The wang xing citizen complained that there were countless atrocities committed by Japanese invaders in Nanjing, such as slaughter, rape and robbery. In addition to burying the bodies of my compatriots in mass graves, many bodies on the streets along the river will also be transported into the river and thrown into the water. Because there were too many bodies, the Japanese invaders forcibly recruited civilian boats and asked the boatmen to push the bodies to the middle of the river with poles and paddles. This citizen surnamed Wang is only 13 years old, and his youngest strength is limited. Many young bodies were taken away by him and put in the river.

What he witnessed at that time made him unforgettable, and he still can't help shivering in retrospect. Many children cling to their mothers' skirts until they die, and mothers cling to their own flesh and blood, so it is difficult to separate adults from children. Like peas and carrots, the Japanese kicked him and beat him until his head was broken. In desperation, he had to try his best to separate the bodies and throw them separately. In order to cover up the crime, the Japanese invaders destroyed their evidence in this way.

The recipient of the body was wearing a black vest with the words "Don't kill" written on his back.

At that time, bodies were floating everywhere on the Yangtze River in Nanjing, and the Yangtze River became a "corpse river". Deep red blood and rancid corpse liquid polluted the river to the sky, and some waterfowl actually stopped to peck at the floating bodies downstream. It is said that even the fish in the river began to eat human flesh, and the disgusting and pungent smell of blood could be smelled ten miles away. The forcibly recruited body collectors have to shuttle through this terrible sea of blood, and each person has to deal with dozens or even hundreds of bodies every day. If you move slowly, you will be punched, kicked and abused by Japanese beast soldiers under supervision. A citizen of Nanjing who received the corpse was badly beaten, but subconsciously looked back at the short Japanese soldier and was stabbed in the chest by a bayonet. I was collecting the body just now, and suddenly, I became a member of the body pile.

As everyone in China knows, the Nanjing Massacre was ordered by Japanese imperial uncle Yukio Hatoyama to "kill all the prisoners". However, when they collected the bodies, they found that few soldiers were killed, almost all were the bodies of civilians, and there were many old ladies who were too weak to run. "They (Japanese) are not people at all! They even killed old ladies, pregnant women and children! " Looking back, the survivors in the body collection team still hate each other.

In order to prevent the corpse collectors from being killed by Japanese soldiers, the Japanese army headquarters issued a special suit to the corpse collection team, which looked like the "Kaner" worn by the Qing soldiers in those days. A piece of white paper was pasted on the back of the suit or a white cloth circle was sewn, on which two striking Chinese characters were written with ink pen: Don't kill!

After the massacre, the whole Nanjing city became a dead city. The rest of the people are hiding in the refugee area temporarily opened by Rabe and others, quietly, and something may happen at any time. No matter how good a dog barks, it's too scared to breathe. Behind the body receiver are the Japanese bayonet and the dark muzzle, which divide the body, move the body and carry it. The eyes are full of horrible limbs and broken arms, and their faces are distorted. Even if you smell it, it will make people feel sick. Fatigue, fear, torture, heartbreak, some people with fragile psychological endurance soon go crazy, waiting for them are bayonets in the chest and bullets in the head. ...

According to the memories of some surviving Nanjing elderly people, these corpse collectors are no longer human beings, and perhaps they can only be called "living things". In fact, like those who died, they were only sentenced to a "suspended death sentence" by the Japanese army. They are like a group of ghosts, wandering in the dead streets of Nanjing, with no hope and no tomorrow, even if it is for a piece of corn and a bowl of cold water to quench their thirst. The Japanese troops who supervise them will never drink the water in the city, because the well water and river water are too bloody. Sometimes it takes half a day to lift a bucket of water, only to find that it is not water, but a bucket of sticky plasma. However, the Japanese army forced the people in the corpse collection team to drink such blood, and they should drink it all at once and not dump it.

The fate of the body receiver is bleak. They are small in number, but they are burdened with overwork that requires thousands or even tens of thousands of people to complete. Some of them were killed, some were crazy, some died of hunger and thirst, some people simply didn't want to live when their loved ones were slaughtered, and ended their lives. Some people suddenly plunged into the corpse pile and died inexplicably ... Others said that the Japanese army felt that these people were unlucky and asked them to dig a pit to bury the body first. When it's almost finished, kick their feet from behind and put them away.

A terrible "corpse smoke" was ignited in Nanjing.

In addition to forcibly collecting the bodies of civilian workers, the Japanese army will also send people to deal with the bodies. At first, the Japanese army tried to separate many bodies and throw them into the river one by one. Later, it was found that there were too many bodies, which was too laborious. The engineering troops dragged the body into the river with a hooked rope. In the end, they tied up the dead China people, started cars or tanks, dragged a long string of bodies, and dumped them by the Yangtze River like a bunch of slaughtered animals.

Some Japanese officers suggested that it would be too time-consuming and laborious, and it would leave many sequelae. It is better to burn it directly and solve it once and for all. This proposal was unanimously recognized by the Japanese army headquarters, so the corpse collection operation quickly turned into the burning of corpses, and a thick smell of burnt corpses suddenly rose in Nanjing, which had just subsided.

This kind of corpse smoke permeates the whole city of Nanjing and lasts for a long time. Many refugees who fled for the rest of their lives were actually smoked to death by this corpse! Japanese engineers who burned corpses all wore gas masks. Even so, some Japanese soldiers couldn't stand the stench of corpse smoke, choked their noses and fainted on the spot. The most terrible thing is that some people were not dead, and they were dying. There are often terrible screams in the burned bodies. There are always some "screaming fireballs" rolling in the corpse until they eventually turn into a pile of coke ... In the face of such a tragic situation, the Japanese officers and men on the sidelines showed a ferocious smile and were intoxicated by the comments. Some Japanese officers and men who completely lost their humanity also thought that the flame was not big enough and the fire was not strong enough, so they rushed to it.

An old lady went to look for her son. On the road, she only saw piles of burning bodies, with human blood and oil flowing next to them. Instead of finding her son, she found a white iron drum with half a barrel of gasoline in it. This petrol tank abandoned by the Japanese army at the burning site is engraved with the words Showa 12 (i.e. 1937), which was produced by Osaka Miyazaki Co., Ltd. In the winter of 1937, thousands of China prisoners of war and Nanjing citizens were slaughtered and burned, and some of them were burned alive.

Xiong Yi, a soldier from the 33rd Infantry Wing of the Japanese 16 Division, admitted: "If you pour oil on a corpse, it will burn directly. We have done it many times, and we can't count it. " 13 division commander of the 65th Wing, Kurihara Yili, still clearly remembers the scene of burning the bodies in those years: "In order to deal with the aftermath of the corpse mountain, other troops were specially mobilized to burn all the bodies with a whole barrel of gasoline. However, it lacked a lot of fuel needed. Although it burned violently for a while, it still burned incompletely, leaving a charred corpse mountain. "

On the Shimonoseki River, the Japanese army dumped the body and burned it. Ichiro Tokuda, an infantryman of 16 Division, said: "In Shimonoseki, a large number of bodies drifted in the Yangtze River, and the bodies were constantly thrown in, and the river became a turbid stream full of bodies." Murase Shoubao of Muhei Fort United Auto No.1 17 Squadron not only took these photos, but also provided testimony: "There are mountains of bodies on the riverside, which is the scene of the massacre on the Yangtze River. Few bodies wear military uniforms, most of them are civilians in civilian clothes, but there are also women and children. The body was burned by oil, dark and pungent! "

Many Japanese soldiers suffered from * * * during the corpse burning, and returned to China with schizophrenia after the war. Before going abroad, he was a warm-blooded young man who was responsible for his family and full of confidence in life. After returning home, he became selfish and indifferent. He is addicted to his wife and children and acts unbelievably abnormally. The war provoked by Japanese militarism hurt the people of China more than that.