In the common law system, the most important thing is evidence, and without evidence, witnesses can also be. There are a large number of witnesses who can testify for the rest of their lives, and this can kill many of the doubts and inferences raised by the Japanese lawyers. What's more, today's Americans and French wear a pair of pants, both of which are in the Allied camp.

These justices naturally tend to be biased in favor of the rest of their lives. The Japanese inferred that there was no evidence, so it was revealed.

Although, the International Military Tribunal for the Far East stipulates that all cross-examination is limited to the main issues raised at the time of direct hearing. However, there are exceptions. The Japanese often bypass the question itself and attack the character of the witness who presents the facts. It must make people feel that the character of the witness is not so strong. The testimonies are not so reliable.

The attacks on the credibility and personality of witnesses by the Japanese did not violate the customary rules of the common law system, the charter of the International Military Tribunal for the Far East, the rules of procedure or the resolutions of various judges' conferences. Thus, although such attacks went beyond the scope of cross-examination established by the Tribunal, the International Military Tribunal for the Far East did not stop them.

For example, an American lawyer from the Japanese lawyers' group once asked Japanese Army Major General Takayoshi Tanaka, who was a prosecutorial witness who proved that the Huanggutun incident was planned by the Japanese, "Are you mentally ill?" ”

Or, "Did the prosecution promise you that if you testify in their favor, they will give you inviolable rights and not prosecute you as a war criminal?" ”

As for some of the other witnesses, the American lawyer who defended Japan's Class-A war criminals asked directly: "What did you get paid for participating in this lawsuit?" ”

This cross-examination, and the question of cross-examination, often angered witnesses who followed the trials of the International Military Tribunal for the Far East. However, real gold is not afraid of fire refining, and some questions are not so easy to cross-examine. Many facts are irrefutable, and no matter how clever the Japanese lawyer team is, it cannot be shaken in the slightest.

The Japanese lawyers' team's cross-examination of Yu Sheng also began by questioning Yu Sheng's character. After the first question collapsed, Kiyose Ichiro came up with another issue that was discussed by the Japanese lawyer group and thought that it was enough to have an impact on the credit for the rest of his life.

Kiyose Ichiro said, "According to me and my colleagues. According to the investigation, in early 1938, when Mr. Yu was interviewed by reporters in Shanghai, he told reporters the "truth" of the so-called Nanjing Massacre. At that time, many newspapers had reported on the people of Shangtan based on Mr. Yu's account. ”

"I want to know, Mr. Yu has already left Nanjing City, how did he learn the so-called 'truth' in Nanjing City? And know so thoroughly? Is this the 'truth' of the city of Nanjing? Or is it Mr. Yu's grandstanding? ”

Yu Sheng smiled, Kiyose Ichiro also asked this question a bit technically. When he first crossed over. The truth about the Nanjing Massacre as told to the outside world is indeed based on the materials he recalled later when he visited the Memorial Hall of the Nanjing Massacre Victims of the Japanese Invasion of China.

However, after crossing over, Yu Sheng began to collect relevant information and evidence. And secretly saved. In order to leave a true and undeniable history for future generations. And there are a lot of Chinese, the Japanese besieged the city, although they killed 300,000 Chinese, but the Japanese butcher knife endured to survive. There are not a few people who have fled Nanjing one after another.

Moreover. For many people fleeing Nanjing, the first stop is the isolated island of Shanghai, which the Japanese can't manage. These people brought a lot of news and even evidence such as photographs. And Tang Shengzhi's indiscriminate command back then also left a foundation for Lao Jiang. These things were secretly bought from the military commander for the rest of his life.

As for the statistics of the Japanese about the massacre of their own army in Nanjing, others do not have it. Nanzao Yunzi has it in his hands. The rest of his life had already let Chen Tian take it out. Anyway, the Japanese have tens of thousands of materials on hand, and they don't have time to count them one by one every day. Therefore, the gods who took these materials did not know it. Even the Japanese themselves did not know that the materials had been lost.

For the rest of his life, he didn't sort out Seichiro, and said to Justice Wilber: "Mr. President, I'm drifting to Shanghai Beach. He began to collect information about the Nanjing Massacre. If possible, I would like to present it in court. ”

Wilbur was in high spirits and said, "Witnesses are allowed to show the evidence they have collected in court!" ”

Although the display and collection of this kind of evidence did not go through the prosecutor team led by Joseph Jinan, the witnesses did have the right to preserve the evidence that they considered important, so it was not considered a violation. In real history, John Magee's video of the Nanjing Massacre by the Japanese was kept by himself.

After obtaining permission, Yu Sheng had the courtroom guards carry a large box from the witness lounge. In this box, he prepared evidence about the massacre carried out by the Japanese in Nanjing before the trial. There are photographs and negatives of photographs, more than a dozen diaries written by different people, and official documents or top-secret information made by the Japanese intelligence services and Lao Chiang's subordinates.

When the judge took the evidence out of the box one by one, there was an uproar at the International Military Tribunal for the Far East.

Wilbur asked Yu Sheng, "Excuse me, where are the witnesses who took these pictures and wrote these diaries?" ”

"I don't know. Some of the diaries were obtained from refugee shelters. It is said that the person who wrote the diary had long since died under the butcher's knife of the Japanese. The people who took these photos are not clear, and the war has made it impossible for me to find the people who took these pictures based on the clues on the photos. ”

"As for this information, I bought it from the black market in Tokyo by accident. Whether it's true or not, I can't tell. It needs to be screened by the Allied intelligence services. ”

The evidence is too heavy. Including the eleven justices, they were a little unbearable. Wilbur struck his hammer and said, "We, the judges, will read and screen this evidence. Now adjourn, uh, two hours! ”

In the courtroom, only Mei Ruxuan and Xiang Zhejun knew a little bit of rumors, and glanced at Yu Sheng approvingly. Yu Sheng was invited by the court guards to the witness lounge. As for Ichiro Kiyose and the Japanese lawyer team, they were speechless in front of the mountain of ironclad evidence. Directly ignored.

originally thought that it was a problem that could be difficult for the rest of his life, but it became a stepping stone for the rest of his life to give information. It's self-inflicted.

There was not a lot of information provided to the International Military Tribunal for the Far East for the rest of his life. Two hours is not enough time to read it all. Also, most of the diaries and other textual materials. All of them are mainly in Chinese, and among the eleven justices, except for Mei Ruxuan, who is familiar with Chinese, the other ten judges cannot directly read these written materials.

So, two hours was only enough time for the justices to go through the photos they had provided for the rest of their lives. And textual materials. It will be handled by the team of prosecutors. However, even so, these photos provided by Yu Sheng are shocking enough.

The photographs detail the murder of Chinese civilians by Japanese soldiers. In black-and-white photographs, the corpses of Chinese civilians litter the streets, while Japanese soldiers still search for the living with bayonets. Once found, a knife will be made. The angle of view of the photograph is clearly behind a certain crack in the door.

At the same time, these photos also record the various atrocities of these Japanese soldiers who broke through the bottom line of human nature. In one photograph, there is a disemboweled Chinese woman with a stiff expression on her face, apparently dead. Two or three Japanese soldiers were laughing beside him with bayonets.

Another photograph shows a Japanese soldier laughing wildly, raising a bayonet with a baby on the tip of the knife. In addition, Japanese soldiers shot Chinese civilians, slashed their heads, beheaded them, decapitated them with guillotines, buried them alive, flooded, dismantled eight pieces, and used Chinese as targets for bayonet practice. The whole nine yards.

Hundreds of photographs, it is simply a true record of hell on earth. It's creepy. These hundreds of photos contain nearly 100 different ways of dying. And all these things happened in Nanjing!

In addition, there are also some reports of the Nanjing Massacre in Japan. Although the Japanese strictly restricted the reporting of the immoral behavior of the Japanese troops on the front, when they first entered Nanjing, they were also a little carried away. So. There are also fish that slip through the net.

One of the newspapers was a December 13, 1937, "Tokyo **** Shimbun" reported on the "killing race" between two Japanese officers.

According to the news record, two second lieutenant officers of the Nakajima Unit of the 16th Division of the Japanese Army, Toshiaki Mukai and Takeshi Noda, with the encouragement of their commanders, met with each other in a "killing competition." The two Japanese agreed on the occupation of Nanjing. Whoever kills a hundred first, is the winner. They killed from Jurong to Tangshan, Mukai Toshiaki killed eighty-nine people, and Noda Takeshi killed seventy-eight people, because they were all less than 100 people. So, the "race" went on.

At noon on December 10, the two met at the foot of the Purple Mountain, and each other's sabers had been cut off. Noda killed one hundred and five people, and Mukai killed one hundred and six. Since it was not clear who had killed 100 people first, it was decided that the competition would be a rematch of who would kill 150 Chinese.

This news was serialized in the form of pictures and texts in the "Tokyo **** News". Toshiaki Mukai and Takeshi Noda, who held the "Killing Contest", were called "heroes of the Imperial Army" by the "Tokyo **** Shimbun" at the time.

This newspaper is actually available in the archives of the Allied Forces, but Japan's "Tokyo **** Shimbun" obviously will not publish the tragic situation of the Chinese in the newspaper, so when I originally read it, although I felt disgusting and miserable, it was not to the point of being creepy.

Now that this is accompanied by this newspaper and the photos provided by Yu Sheng, the judges feel cold and hairy. Toshiaki Mukai and Takeshi Noda, smiling in the newspaper, with a lot of corpses behind them, like evil ghosts.

This kind of thing challenges the moral bottom line of human beings. But whoever has some conscience cannot bear it. After a two-hour adjournment, the eleven judges unanimously decided to show the photographs at the International Military Tribunal for the Far East. and select representative photos that allow journalists to take photos and document.

And the effect of these photos is also sensational. When these photographs were published in various Japanese newspapers and periodicals under pressure from the Allied forces, the Japanese people clearly knew what the Japanese soldiers at the front had done.

The atrocities committed by the Japanese in Nanjing also touched a large number of Japanese. The arrogance of the Japanese, who originally thought that they were only defeated by the Americans and should not accept the trial of the Chinese as judges and prosecutors, was significantly less.

And in Nanjing, China, many people wept silently when a large number of photos and evidence were reported by Chinese newspapers. Although the war has passed, many years have passed. However, those who have survived have never blurred their memories of the past. There are also people who have found their old acquaintances in these photos, and originally thought that they had just lost contact with each other during the war. Unexpectedly, he was already killed by the Japanese!

For a time, there was a wail everywhere. The incense burned to pay tribute to the deceased lasted for more than ten days. And the painstaking solitude of the rest of his life, collecting evidence, proving history, and making it impossible for the Japanese to deny the Nanjing Massacre, was also praised by everyone. Faintly, several newspapers designated Yu Sheng as a national hero.

However, although the evidence for Yu Sheng is comprehensive, the Japanese have captured Yu Sheng as a Chinese and a famous film director. It is not said that these photos unknown to the photographer were made by looking for actors to cooperate with the performance for the rest of his life. Hearing this, everyone was furious.

And the trial can only go on. Subsequently, the team of prosecutors brought in witnesses from China who had appeared in real history appeared one after another. The most famous of these is John Magee.

Born in the United States in 1884, John Magee was sent to China as a pastor by the Anglican Church in 1912 after graduating from Yale University and Massachusetts Cambridge Anglican Theological Seminary. Subsequently, he worked as a missionary at Daosheng Hall in Nanjing. This kind of missionary group has been in China since 1840 and has been in circulation ever since. Some people have some kindness to China, and John Magee is one of them.

John Magee was a missionary at Daosheng Hall in Nanjing until 1940. In 1937, when the Japanese were stationed in Nanjing, John Magee became the Chairman of the Nanjing Committee of the International Committee of the Red Cross and a member of the International Committee of the Nanjing Safety Zone. The chairman of the International Committee of the Nanjing Safety Zone is John Rabe, who is known as Schindler of China.

John Magee's greatest contribution to the Chinese, in addition to saving countless Chinese during the war, wrote more than 400 "protest letters" and "reports" to the Japanese embassy and the supreme command of the Japanese occupation forces in two months, and strongly demanded that the atrocities be stopped, was to use a 16mm camera to film everything the Japanese did in Nanjing. and passed on to posterity.

John Magee shot a total of four reels of photographic film. The total length is one hundred and five minutes. These shots are the only moving images of the Nanjing Massacre of the Japanese army that has survived to future generations! And his son David Magee, in 2002, donated to the Memorial Hall of the Nanjing Massacre, which became the ironclad evidence of the Nanjing Massacre by the Japanese. (To be continued.) )