The day after Zhou Hexuan came to New York, Hu Shi and Zhang Pengchun also came over. They were very familiar with the Pritz brothers, and Hu Shi even had a friendship with Henry Pritz for nearly fifteen years.

In initiating the "United States Non-Participation in the Japanese Aggression Committee," Hu Shi and Zhang Pengchun also made great efforts. Regarding the propaganda work of the Japanese invasion of China, Hu Shih gave speeches in the United States, while Zhang Pengchun wrote plays and performed them in the United States, which coordinated with the propaganda activities of the American church.

Zhou Hexuan vaguely felt that the United States had a pair of invisible hands that connected Hu Shi, Zhang Pengchun, the American church and the American academic circles.

But it's certainly not the Skull and Bones Society, because the Skull and Bones Society isn't monolithic either. Some families hope that the United States will not enter the war, some families hope that the United States will enter the war as soon as possible, and some families hope that the United States will enter the war at the right time.

Although Stimson will have a huge influence in Skeleton, he still can't reconcile this contradiction. He is inclined to the United States to enter the war as soon as possible, but the problem is that others are unwilling, and can only achieve the goal by supporting the non-governmental anti-Japanese and aid China movement.

Zhou Hexuan wants to build momentum in the United States, and families such as Stimson and Whitney also want to build momentum, and their goals are now the same.

At the same time, the forces opposing sanctions against Japan were even more terrifying, and those interest groups joined forces to suppress both Roosevelt and Stimson from acting rashly.

In mid-June, John Rabe finally arrived in the United States.

He was tall, slightly chubby, with round-framed eyes, and the top of his head was bald, with only some hair around him.

After John Rabe met Zhou Hexuan, the first thing he said was: "I'm sorry, Mr. Zhou." I was not able to bring films about the Holocaust, they were taken away by the Gestapo. ”

"You made a film too?" Zhou Hexuan was surprised.

Rabe explained: "It was filmed by Mr. Magee in the United States, and I got a copy of it, and I was going to take it back to Germany to expose Japan's war crimes. But ......"

After Mr. Rabe's careful explanation, Zhou Hexuan finally understood what happened.

When Rabe first returned to Germany, he was warmly welcomed and awarded a Red Cross by the German State Secretary.

Immediately afterwards, Rabe sent his report to Hitler. A few days later, the Gestapo arrested him, took copies of his diary and films, interrogated him for several hours, and released him. At the same time, the Gestapo warned Rabe not to make further reports, not to publish books, and not to show films about the massacre in Maggie.

Historically, it was not until October 1938 that Rabe asked for his diary back. Now it's a little different, because Zhou Hexuan promised to help Rabe publish a book in the United States, and Rabeto asked for a diary from the police headquarters in advance.

Rabe's departure from Germany was also thrilling, as he hid his diary in a suitcase and nearly found it by watchdogs. He took his family to Sweden under the pretext of travel, because Sweden had good relations with Germany, so it was not difficult for the Gestapo. After arriving in Sweden, he took a ship to England and then to the United States overnight.

Rabe rejoiced: "Mr. Zhou, fortunately, the telegram you sent me was forwarded through the Chinese Embassy in Germany. If it had been sent to me directly, it would have been discovered by the Gestapo, who had been secretly monitoring my foreign communications. ”

"Do you have any plans for the future?" Zhou Hexuan asked.

Rabe said: "I don't know in the future, but now I just want to make the diary public so that more Westerners can know about the atrocities of the Japanese army." Although there are no clear figures, the Japanese army slaughtered at least more than 100,000 people in Nanjing! ”

Zhou Hexuan hurriedly asked, "How did you calculate?" ”

"The Red Swastika buries at least 200 bodies a day, but there are still 30,000 bodies unburied, and that's just in mid-February," Rabe said. Therefore, just from the report of the burial of the corpses of the Red Swastika Society, it can be assumed that the Japanese army slaughtered more than 42,000 people. In Nanjing, in addition to the Red Swastika Society, there were also the Red Cross, the Muslim burial team, the Tongshantang burial team, the Chongshantang burial team, the Nanjing Provisional Government burial team, and sporadic private burial teams. Even if these burial teams had buried half as many bodies as the Red Swastika, that would add up to more than 100,000 victims. As for more numbers, I don't dare to think about it. ”

Zhou Hexuan was silent for a moment and said, "Can I take a look at your diary first?" ”

"Of course." Rabe hurriedly opened the suitcase, and what caught his eyes was three medals and a piece of red silk.

One of the three medals is a jade medal awarded by the National Government. The red silk cloth was given to the refugees he relieved when Rabe left Nanjing, and the red cloth read: "You are a living bodhisattva of hundreds of thousands of people." ”

Rabe untied the red silk cloth, flipped out the diary and handed it to Zhou Hexuan, while he stood aside and smoked.

To be honest, although Zhou Hexuan likes to read all kinds of historical books, he has not read about the Nanjing Massacre before he travels. Because when he was in high school, the school organized a patriotic education exhibition, and the photos of the Nanjing Massacre made him sick to his stomach, and he resolutely refused to contact it again.

At this moment, Zhou Hexuan opened the manuscript of Rabe's diary with an unusually heavy heart, and read it carefully.

The first part is quite normal, it is about the preparation of the international security zone, and the next part is shocking. In fact, Rabe's language is very ordinary, he used "patronize" when the Japanese army broke into the safe zone, and he used "pull away" when the Japanese army snatched women.

But behind these ordinary words, there is infinite blood, brutality and ugliness.

Sometimes, on the same day, it is densely recorded who was taken away at what time, and who was pulled away at what time.

In Rabe's account, there were also a few good people in the Japanese army, such as the Japanese military police to stop the rape and robbery of soldiers, such as a Japanese soldier treating a wounded nun. However, there are only a few records of this kind of "good Japanese army", and the rest are all things that are inferior to a group of beasts.

At the same time, it can be seen from the diary that the Japanese are deliberately hiding the truth. Slightly larger massacres would have driven Westerners away beforehand, but Rabe was able to witness the slaughter of hundreds of people at a time. Moreover, the Japanese army will also provide food to the international security zone, try to pretend to be hypocritical, so that Westerners think that there are not many civilians slaughtered.

In one of the December diaries, Rabe mentioned a rumor that 60,000 Chinese had been killed. But Rabe was skeptical, because he hadn't seen it with his own eyes, and he couldn't believe it was true.

Zhou Hexuan flipped through the pages one by one, and Yu Peichen followed alongside.

It didn't take long for Yu Peichen to look at it, and ran out of the room to ease his emotions.

There was a dead silence in the room, only the sound of Zhou Hexuan flipping through the manuscript remained.