Chapter 1126: There is a picture and a truth

Zhang Chunru is a confident, beautiful, kind and great Chinese woman.

The 1997 book "Nanjing Massacre: The Forgotten Catastrophe of World War II" was published in the United States.

This book, which boldly exposed the heinous crimes of the Japanese army back then, caused a strong sensation in the Western world.

For the first time, on a large scale, Westerners began to examine the tragic history of that shocking massacre.

Seminars related to the Nanjing Massacre were held at Harvard and Stanford universities in the United States, and the Nanjing Massacre was widely reported by the American media.

Within a month, the book hit the New York Times bestseller list of the most regarded books in the United States and was named the most loved book of the year.

Kirby, chair of the history department at Harvard University, said in the preface to her book, The Forgotten Nanjing Massacre, that it was "the first book to fully study the Nanjing Massacre in English."

As an author, Zhang Chunru was happy to see that his work had received great attention and that the Nanjing Massacre had been seen by more Europeans and Americans.

But at the same time, she was also enduring a lot of mental stress.

This book stung too many sensitive nerves, and as soon as the book came out, Zhang Chunru was threatened and coerced by ******.

Not only that, but as a father, the US authorities are also pressuring in various ways.

Long-term high-pressure work and lack of sleep and fear of persecution from the government caused Zhang Chunru's health to become ill, and she suffered from severe depression.

In the end, Zhang Chunru, who was only 36 years old, ended his short but extraordinary life with a pistol in his car.

Now in 1991, Zhang Chunru has not yet set out to write this book.

I probably won't write about it in the future.

Because Qiao Feng is already copying.

This is the first time that a copy of a document has been done without any psychological burden.

Because compared to Zhang Chunru, who is an ordinary person, the current Qiao Feng is not afraid of threats and retaliation from the right-wing forces at all.

Zhang Chunru, let this beautiful and kind woman continue to live happily.

The best way to commemorate history is not to forget, not to be indifferent, and to remember it.

In this time and space, let me be the one who evokes people's memories.

At the end of the summer season, whether it is Hong Kong or North America, the smoke of the film market is still filling.

But the disturbances from the outside world did not affect Qiao Feng, who was concentrating on copying books.

Qiao Feng copied this book very slowly.

It's not that he can't remember the contents, it's that he spends a lot of time looking at the various materials of the Holocaust.

Because Qiao Feng is not only going to use words to tell about the Nanjing Massacre, there are words, pictures, and even images to better convince many Europeans and Americans that the Nanjing Massacre is real.

All kinds of historical materials about the Nanjing Massacre, in addition to domestic materials, the most are naturally the collections of the book itself.

But after World War II, Yuben has been erasing and destroying materials about the Nanjing Massacre

And even if it is retained, it is not easy to find and see.

As a result, the materials of the foreigners who remained in Nanjing at that time became the most important source of information for the study of the Nanjing Massacre.

And because it is a foreigner's own account, it can also make foreigners more convinced of the authenticity of the Holocaust.

On this day, Qiao Feng was watching a 37-minute silent movie and a diary written by a German.

The Thirteen Hairpins of Jinling is a script based on the diary of Ms. Minnie Weitling, who served as the dean and head of the education department of Jinling Women's College of Arts and Sciences.

During the Nanjing Massacre of the Japanese Invasion of China, it became an important target of the Japanese army.

Weitling was not the only foreigner to keep a diary of the atrocities committed by the Japanese during the Nanjing Massacre.

More than 20 other foreign friends, including the German Rabe and Ms. Weitling, jointly established the Nanjing Security Zone and were elected as the chairman of the Security Zone.

He also wrote down what he saw and heard during the Nanjing Massacre in his diary.

As early as when Qiao Feng was preparing to shoot the thirteen hairpins of Jinling, he began to ask people to visit the descendants of those foreign friends back then, looking for the bits and pieces of accounts they left about the Nanjing Massacre.

Even if it's a paragraph, even if it's a photo.

It is all ironclad evidence that the army committed heinous crimes during the Nanjing Massacre.

Mr. Rabe's diary was found in this context.

The diary is full of Rabe's personal experiences and experiences, which are very specific, detailed and true.

For example, December 14, 1937: Driving through the city, we realized the magnitude of the damage. Every 1200 meters, the car would run over the corpses, which were the corpses of civilians. I checked and the bullets were fired from behind, most likely from behind civilians who were killed while fleeing.

December 16, 1937: I drove to Xiaguan to investigate the power plant, and there were corpses on Zhongshan North Road...... In front of the city gates, the corpses were piled up like a hill...... Killings are being carried out everywhere, some in the barracks in front of the Ministry of Defense. The machine guns rang out incessantly.

December 22, 1937: During the clearance of the security zone, we found that many civilians had been shot dead in the ponds, one of which contained 30 corpses, most with their hands tied, some with stones tied around their necks.

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No one can deny the credibility of these accounts, because while writing his diary, Rabe also carefully preserved more than 80 photographs taken on the spot, which he gave a detailed description.

These texts make an objective and fair evaluation of the actual situation and political rights and wrongs of the warring parties in China and Japan based on the understanding of the environment at that time.

Qiao Feng had read a lot of historical materials about the Nanjing Massacre before, but in his opinion, Mr. Rabe's diary was definitely the most numerous and complete historical material for the study of the Nanjing Massacre.

In his diary, more than 500 tragic events are recorded in detail.

Such a complete and systematic record of the Nanjing Massacre has not been found in the historical materials found so far, and it is definitely a major discovery in the study of the Nanjing Massacre.

And this diary was sent by Qiao Feng to find Mr. Rabe's granddaughter Reinhardt, and then through her from her uncle, Mr. Rabe's son.

Coincidentally, Mr. Rabe, Ms. Weitling's son of Mr. John Magee, who had co-founded the security zone during the Nanjing Massacre, had recently found a film copy of Mr. Magee's film taken during the Nanjing Massacre and a 16mm camera used by Mr. Magee in his basement among his father's belongings.

The 37-minute silent film that Qiao Feng watched was a fine-cut version of the Holocaust edited from more than 100 minutes of film copies.

After getting these materials and images, Qiao Feng was quite excited.

With these, combined with the Nanjing Massacre - the forgotten World War II catastrophe, the book has words, pictures and truths, and when the time comes, it will be released at the same time as the release of the Thirteen Hairpins in Jinling, which will definitely cause a huge sensation.