At this time, China was in urgent need of all kinds of weapons and equipment, and the imperialists stopped exporting weapons and equipment to China one after another because they were afraid of Japan, which means that China could not buy weapons and preparations with money at this time.

(There is no doubt that China was struggling alone before the United States entered the war, and China paid a heavy price for the victory of the anti-fascist war, while China's sacrifice was not duly recognized after the war.) ）

He Fengshan soon received a phone call from Lao Chiang, who instructed He Fengshan to leave for Paris, France immediately, and to find a way to buy a large number of weapons and equipment, such as rifles, machine guns, anti-aircraft guns, 37 anti-tank guns, tanks, artillery, etc., as long as it is weapons and equipment, China wants it, and it is not refusal.

At this time, China really needs weapons and equipment! Many soldiers still use the old sleeves produced in the Qing Dynasty, and the rifling has long been smoothed, and each soldier only has five bullets, plus a large knife.

What can you do with five bullets! I can't imagine that at this time, the Japanese army was complete by land, sea and air, with abundant ammunition and advanced weapons and equipment, and China was really defending its land and national dignity with its flesh and blood.

When He Fengshan gave a speech at Rommel, he found that the German generals on the podium had fixed their eyes on their faces several times, which made He Fengshan almost look for a mirror to see if his face was a flower.

When Rommel finished speaking, He Fengshan hurriedly raised his hand and asked, he wanted to know the new and old situation of these weapons, after all, these weapons and equipment were captured by Germany and the French army.

When Rommel saw He Fengshan, a compatriot before the crossing, the closeness in his heart couldn't help but feel it, and he pointed directly at He Fengshan and said:

"This gentleman, please ask a question"

He Fengshan immediately got up, first nodded to Rommel in thanks, and then immediately reported to his home:

"Great general, my name is He Fengshan, Chinese Consul General in Vienna."

When Rommel heard that the other party's name was He Fengshan, and he was still the Chinese Consul General in Vienna, Rommel was overjoyed, isn't this the famous "Schindler of China" in history?

(China has a hero recognized by the international community, and I ask my brothers to take a look at the following.) )

When Ho took office, war clouds were already gathering over Europe, and Nazis were raging, setting off a wave of anti-Semitism. In March 1938, Germany annexed Austria.

Soon after, Hitler ordered the embassies of all countries in Austria to be changed into consulates general. In May, the Nanjing Nationalist Government appointed He Fengshan, the former chargé d'affaires of the Chinese Embassy, as Consul General.

The Nazis fanned up an anti-Semitic frenzy (Rommel was not a Nazi), Jewish shops were destroyed, and large numbers of Jews were sent to concentration camps.

In the face of annihilation, European Jews decided to flee the Nazis, but it was difficult to obtain a visa to go abroad.

At that time, very few countries were willing to accept Jews, and the visa conditions were extremely harsh. An Austrian Jewish survivor recalls his despair:

"Visa! We live with news about visas all the time, and we wake up with visa issues.

We talk about this all the time...... Where can we go? During the day, we strive to obtain the necessary documents, opinions, stamps. At night, in bed, we dream, and in the dream there is a long line, officials! Visa! Visa! ”

Austria has the third largest Jewish population in Europe, with a total population of around 185,000 people. The Nazis wanted to exterminate the Jews here, stipulating that the Jews in the concentration camps could be released as long as they could leave Austria, and those who could not be expelled were to be slaughtered in the camps.

Thus, for the Jews of Austria, to leave was to live, and not to leave was to die. As a result, the Jews tried to get out of Austria.

The desire to survive in order to leave the country where the visa of the destination first had to be obtained led thousands of Jews to travel between consulates every day, but to no avail.

On July 13, 1938, an international conference was held in Evian, France, to discuss the Jewish refugee question, and the 32 countries participating in the conference all stressed the difficulties and turned off red lights for Jewish visas and refused to lend a helping hand.

As a result, Shanghai, known as the world's ******, became the preferred destination for Jews from all over the world. The Chinese Consulate General in Austria became the last hope for Jews to obtain a "life and death visa".

The sympathetic Chinese diplomat He Fengshan, who could not bear to watch the Jews waiting to die in Vienna, reached out to the desperate Austrian Jews and bravely opened the door to the issuance of visas to the Jews.

In desperation, a 17-year-old Jewish teenager, Goldestuber, had run all over the consulates general of nearly 50 countries in Vienna except China, but found nothing.

To his surprise, 20 visas were obtained in a very short period of time. Holding this large stack of life-and-death visas, he was so excited that he couldn't speak when he thought of his family's dream of escaping from the tiger's mouth come true.

On July 20, 1938, Goldstober obtained 20 visas from the Chinese Consulate General to Shanghai, China. The news spread quickly among the Jews.

There was a long queue in front of the Chinese Consulate General from morning to night, and many Jews who had no way to ask for help got "life visas" to Shanghai, so they fled Europe to China, or transferred to Shanghai to the United States, Palestine, Australia and other places.

He Fengshan, who resisted the pressure, issued visas to Jews en masse, causing displeasure among the Nazi authorities. The Nazis confiscated the house under the pretext that the house of the Chinese Consulate General was the property of Jews.

He Fengshan paid out of his own pocket, quickly moved the consulate to another very small house, and insisted on issuing visas.

At that time, domestic political circles were also divided on the granting of visas to Jews. He had a good impression of Germany, used German military advisers, bought German weapons, and sent his son Jiang Weiguo to Germany to study military affairs.

This naturally put a lot of pressure on He Fengshan, and he was soon directly threatened by his immediate boss, Chen Jie, the ambassador to Germany.

Chen Jie adhered to the will of the country, wanted to maintain relations with Germany, and was afraid of offending the other party, so he resolutely opposed He Fengshan's issuance of visas to Jews, but He Fengshan ignored it.

Later, someone made a small report to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, saying that He Fengshan was selling visas to Jews. Chen Jie then adopted a surprise attack and sent people to Vienna to investigate.

Because no evidence could be found, it was dismissed, but He Fengshan was transferred out of Vienna in June 1940.

(If it weren't for Rommel's auction of weapons and equipment, He Fengshan would have been transferred at this time.) ）

According to this calculation, He Fengshan has issued at least several thousand passports. On average, more than 500 copies are distributed per month, sometimes as much as 900. At that time, a steamer made seven round-trips, carrying 3,600 European Jewish refugees, to Shanghai, a haven of refuge in the East.

At that time, Jews with Chinese consulate visas were not only able to leave Vienna legally, but also used Chinese visas as a talisman to save their lives in times of crisis.

Shanghai became the only international metropolis in the world to open its doors to Jewish refugees at that time, reaching more than 30,000 at its peak, more than Canada, Australia, India, South Africa, and New Zealand combined.

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