never forgive

Elenor 2022-12-19 11:22:43

I remember the first time I learned about the Nanjing Massacre in junior high school. At that time, I went to the library during the school lunch break. I couldn’t sleep and bored. I saw a somewhat worn history book. I don’t remember the title. The black-and-white photos are so depressing and uncomfortable to look at. The content records the suffering of the compatriots in the Nanjing Massacre. The description is direct, the words are shocking, and the photos are shocking... The past depicted between the lines in the book seems to be an impossible world

Looking at this history at that time, the tears couldn't stop for some reason, and the throat was sore...

Later, when I saw Jinling's Thirteen Hairpins and Rabe's Diary, the history was far more terrifying than the descriptions in these two films. The Japanese army carried out atrocities against our Nanjing compatriots for seven weeks! Adultery, captivity, all evils, annihilation of conscience, annihilation of human nature, can be said to be inferior to even beasts! In the Nanjing Massacre, according to records, 300,000 compatriots died. In fact, it was not only 300,000 people. In order to cover up the evidence of their massacre of civilians and prisoners of war, the Japanese threw the corpses of tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of compatriots. The Yangtze River, some of which were also burned, is simply hateful! They don't even spare children and babies. The women who raped and gang-raped ranged from ten years old to eighty years old. Not only hundreds of people were killed, but there were many more appalling... However, those prisoners of war who returned to Japan after World War II were still able to The Japanese government has never made an apology or compensation for this, trying to cover it up. People who have lost their humanity can do anything. (These are all learned from Zhang Chunru's book "Nanjing Massacre")

These devils should be called devils and devils are not worthy of being called human beings, not even beasts

History should not be forgotten, forgetting is the second injury to the deceased compatriots

We are not that they can't choose to forgive for them and will never forgive

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John Rabe quotes

  • Colonel Nakajima Kesago: He disobeyed the rules by not staying in the car.

    John Rabe: He didn't stay in the car? His head was cut off!

    Colonel Nakajima Kesago: It was an honorable death. A contest between two officers. Very popular in Japan.

    John Rabe: What contest?

    Colonel Nakajima Kesago: Who decapitates the most enemies.

  • John Rabe: To the Führer of the German people. Chancellor Adolf Hitler. My Führer. As a loyal party member and upstanding German. I turn to you in a time of great need. The Japanese Imperial troops conquered the city of Nanking on December 12, 1937. Since then I have witnessed atrocious crimes against civilians. Please help to end this catastrophe and make an appeal to our Japanese allies in the name of humanity. With a German salute.

    [Rabe signs the letter]