The only difference from the original history is that John Magee had been in contact with the rest of his life before he testified in court. After all, there are not a few industries in the United States for the rest of his life, and now there are not 10,000 employees under his hands, but 8,000. Contacting American-born John Magee is easy.

After the rest of his life of persuasion, John Magee prepared two surprises for the Japanese.

After witnesses had taken the oath and President Wilbur had routinely questioned John Magee about his name, place of birth, occupation and time in China, John Magee began to tell what he had seen and heard in Nanjing.

Wilber asked John Magee, "How did the Japanese soldiers treat the Chinese civilians after occupying Nanking on December 13, 1937?" ”

John Magee replied, "Incredibly terrifying! Within a few days, the massacres began quickly, often with individual Japanese soldiers, sometimes more than thirty Japanese soldiers wandering around together, each seemingly holding the power of life and death, and soon after, organized mass murder began. Soon Nanking was littered with corpses, and I once encountered groups of Chinese civilians who were taken away and killed. ”

"These people were mainly killed with rifles and machine guns. In addition, we know that hundreds of people have been stabbed to death with bayonets. One woman told me that her husband's hands were tied in front of her and then her husband was thrown into a pond while she was there to witness it all. The Japanese did not allow her to save her husband, who drowned right in front of her. ”

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"On December 16, they (Japanese soldiers) came to a refugee camp, which I was very familiar with, because it was where my Christian church members gathered, and they took 14 people from here, including the fifteen-year-old son of a Chinese pastor. Four days later, one of the fourteen - he was a coolie - came back and told us the fate of the others! ”

"They were gathered with more than a thousand other people. They were escorted to the Yangtze River, where they were shot from both ends of the ranks with machine guns like mowing grass. Before the bullets flew, the coolie fell to the ground with a bang, not shot. The bodies of other people around him covered him, and he lay there until dark. Escaped. ”

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"On 18 December, the Vice-Consul Tanaka of the Japanese Embassy invited me to go with him to Shimonoseki, north of Nanjing, to identify a foreigner's property, on which he would put up a notice to protect it. I couldn't get out of town except in his car. We approached the road and crossed a small alley, but soon came across many corpses and we had to reverse the car because we couldn't pass through the alley at all. Unless rolled over these corpses. ”

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Wilbur then asked, "How did the Japanese soldiers treat women and children after the occupation of Nanjing?" ”

John Magee said: "It's just as incredibly scary. Rape happens every day. Many women and even children have been killed. If a woman refuses or resists, she is shot or stabbed to death. I took some photographs, I made some videos, and I documented the injuries that these women had suffered, some of them had their necks split open and wounds all over their bodies. ……”

"There are a lot of other such incidents. We face one of the most serious problems - and this is the problem that all foreigners face. We can't stop them from taking men away, but we can stop them from raping women. ……”

"If there is any real measure to stop this kind of behavior. This behavior can be stopped. At that time, this kind of thing was not taken seriously at all. One day, Rabe, the chairman of the Security Zone Committee, went to his house with a Japanese officer. Mr. Rabe took in many Chinese women, and there were about two or three hundred people in his yard, and they set up little tents in the yard, and when he arrived home with the Japanese officer that day, they saw a Japanese soldier raping women in a tent, and all the officer did was slap the soldier a few times. Rabe was disgusted by this and told the other members of the international committee about it. ”

"On January 30th, we have to deal with a new crisis because the Japanese are trying -- they are trying to find us and try to force us to send these women home from the safe zone."

Wilber asked, "What year was it on January 30?" ”

"January 30, 1938! They [the Japanese] don't want us - they don't want these women to be protected by us. We decided to make some gestures of submissiveness. Because we are afraid that the entire security zone will be disbanded. ”

"So we advise older women to go home, but we still keep younger women under our protection. We soon heard that the rape began again after the women returned home from the safe zone, and some of these women, we knew in the safe zone. ”

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After recalling this question, Wilber asked, "Mr. Magee, how did the Japanese soldiers treat their private property after the occupation of Nanjing?" ”

"The Japanese soldiers took everything they wanted: watches, fountain pens, money, clothes, food. I once took a mentally handicapped woman to the hospital in the first few days who was stabbed in the neck by a Japanese soldier while reclaiming the bedding that had been snatched by the Japanese soldier. The Japanese soldiers simply paid no attention to the notices posted by their own consulates about the protection of foreign property, nor did they pay any attention to the notices posted by the American embassy. ……”

Wilbur then asked: "How long did you describe the treatment of civilians and property by Japanese soldiers after the occupation of Nanjing?" ”

"After about six weeks, this kind of thing started to decrease, but there were still many such incidents, and after that there were many individual incidents. ……”

Wilbur asked in detail, and John Magee answered in detail. Seeing that the situation was not good, the Japanese lawyer interrupted: "If Your Excellency Judge allows me, I would like to use this gap to remind the court that I believe the judges have noticed that this witness is helping his memory by reading some kind of note, then I think until now he cannot testify based on his memory, and he should not read the notes or the prepared records." I hope the courts will regulate this. ”

Wilbur said to John Magee: "When you are on the witness stand, you have no freedom to read the notes—unless you have permission from the court, you can only read them if you need them to help you recall and they were recorded when these things happened." This warning is valid for you. ”

John Magee said, "I want to tell you what is written in my notebook. There are only dates on it. I write a diary letter to my wife every day, and it's in my hand right now. It's full of dates like "December 14th"! ”

"If the records are detailed, my diary is far less detailed than that of Mr. Rabe and Ms. Weitling. I also brought their diaries! If I talk about reading, I might as well read these two more detailed diaries! And, whether I'm reading a diary or not, the truth of history can't be changed. ”

"I said it earlier. I've videotaped some Chinese. I would like to tell Your Excellency the President that I have also brought the real image of the Nanjing Massacre to the court, and I hope that the court will allow it to be broadcast in court! And hopefully the court will adopt the diaries of Mr. Rabe and Ms. Weitling! ”

According to the rules of the International Military Tribunal for the Far East, videos that can be recognized as evidence can be played in court. For example, the prosecution of the International Military Tribunal for the Far East, in order to prove Japan's preparations for a war of aggression, and the leadership role played by the defendant Sadao Araki in the preparation for war. He once presented a film called "Japan in Extraordinary Times" as a testimony.

This "Japan in Extraordinary Times" was immediately accepted as evidence by the International Military Tribunal for the Far East. and was screened in public in the Judgment Hall. The Americans renovated the International Military Tribunal for the Far East with an excellent performance, and the projection effect was far from being comparable to that of ordinary movie theaters.

John Magee's evidence surprised the judges. After all, the Nanjing Massacre was extremely tragic, and there are very few videos that can be preserved. I didn't even collect it for the rest of my life, but I didn't expect to have a copy in the hands of John Magee.

The crowd in the auditorium and the press gallery were also in an uproar when they heard John Magee say this. The Japanese lawyer group was unprepared. After hearing the news, his face turned pale. Wilbur could only hit the hammer twice. "Quiet! Be quiet! We will now adjourn for forty-five minutes! The Council of Judges will vote on whether or not to show the video brought by Mr. John Magee. And whether to admit Rabe's diaries and Weitling's diaries as new evidence! ”

In fact, Wilbur understood that John Magee's video was bound to be played. If he dares not to broadcast it in court, the next day the public saliva will drown him. But. John Magee is referring not only to the video, but also to the diaries of Rabe and Weitling.

The news was so unexpected that he needed to digest it. Therefore, the court can only be adjourned temporarily.

And many listeners and media outlets were very excited to learn that John Magee's video would be shown in court. I realized that the 3,000 yen scalper ticket was not bought in vain.

Really. Forty-five minutes after the adjournment. Wilber announced in court: "Allow John Magee's video to be played in court!" ”

John Magee's video, in later generations, is somewhat blurry, and not too entertaining, not attractive. However, in this era, it is the most fascinating record of truth. Both the Japanese lawyer group and the Chinese are very interested in this video.

At the very least, the Japanese lawyer team needs to do everything possible to find some details that can exonerate themselves.

John Magee's video, the rest of his life in later generations to see a lot of clips, the longest version, is the seventeen-minute version. Silent films without dubbing, occasional interruptions, and no specific continuous action make the rest of the lives separated by decades have no sense of substitution. At this time, I watched the full version, but I had a different feeling.

For the rest of my life, I saw that the Japanese tanks and artillery were frantically shelling the city of Nanjing; The Japanese machine guns were firing at the swarms of Chinese, and Chinese fell like ears of wheat being harvested......

The city of Nanjing is full of ruins and broken walls; The Chinese woman who was bullied by the Japanese army fell to the ground covered in wounds; The bodies of Chinese charred by gasoline are horrifying, whether on the streets or in ponds, the bodies of Chinese who were brutally killed by the Japanese are piled up everywhere. ……

The anger and sadness in my heart are irrepressible, far deeper than when I look at it in the afterlife.

John Magee's video content is mainly divided into two parts. Part of it is the cruelty of the Japanese to the Chinese. Especially the atrocities when they first entered the city of Nanjing. The other part is the scene on February 16, 1938, when John Magee, the German Günther and the Danish Sinderbel went to the Jiangnan Cement Factory and Qixia Temple to rescue refugees.

In the video, more than 10,000 refugees can be seen struggling to survive in the Jiangnan cement factory refugee camp, and injured refugees waiting in line for medical treatment.

At the same time, it was also recorded that 80 percent of the peasant houses along the main road from Taipingmen to Longtan were destroyed by the war between 10 and 12 miles; The old lady who fled to the city in the countryside was beaten to death by the Japanese; The Chinese soldiers who were tied up were executed by the Japanese and thrown into a pond; The corpses of Sichuan soldiers are lying on the road, etc., which makes people feel painful like a knife blade.

The seventeen-minute version of John Magee's video in later generations recorded most of the injured Chinese who went to the hospital for treatment, and there were not many long shots, but there was also a vast world. This is even more evident in the full version of John Magee's video.

This constitutes a wonderful cross-contrast - the vast land, the overbearing Japanese army, and the wounded Chinese. It's a kind of montage that John Magee didn't intend, but created an artistic effect. Although there is no dubbing, only the occasional English commentary, but you can know the pain caused by the war to the Chinese.

And the most striking thing is not the wounds on the human body, but the pairs of eyes in the image. Maybe intentionally, or unintentionally, John Magee always takes pictures of the upper body of some people when they sit in meditation in the documentary, in the clips about the hospital. There were two women whose eyes looked directly at the camera, extremely silent.

The contrast between black and white is so strong that the pain in these eyes is particularly vivid. The younger the eyes, the more emotionally distinct. Especially that eleven-year-old girl. On the contrary, some adults, perhaps because they understand the pain of life, have no distinct emotions in their eyes, and are confused and unaware.

Although, these images of John Magee are only recorded for the sake of recording. It's not even a documentary. But John Magee can clearly appreciate the pain of these people he rescues, and knows how they express themselves, and can easily capture these momentary and long-lasting emotions with the camera.

This film also has a rare artistry, naturally. (To be continued.) )

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