NANJING, April 27 (Xinhua) — Historical supplies have been donated to a Chinese memorial corridor as new proof of conflict crimes associated to the 1937 Nanjing Massacre perpetrated by the invading Japanese troops.
A complete of 98 gadgets together with a soldier’s doc and newspapers carrying articles and images about Japanese atrocities have been donated by an American-Chinese named Lu Zhaoning to the Memorial Hall of the Victims in Nanjing Massacre by Japanese Invaders, on Wednesday.
On Dec. 13, 1937, the Japanese troops captured Nanjing. In the next six weeks, they slaughtered greater than 300,000 Chinese civilians and unarmed troopers in some of the barbaric episodes of WWII, referred to as the Nanjing Massacre.
The soldier’s doc is a booklet detailing his expertise in China, ranging from January 1937 when he was enlisted. According to the booklet, he took half within the battle invading Nanjing between Nov. 19 and Dec. 14, after which he was posted close to town till Dec. 21.
According to Wang Weixing, a analysis fellow with the Jiangsu Provincial Academy of Social Sciences, the soldier belonged to the Japanese Army’s Sixth Division headed by conflict prison Hisao Tani, and was one of many troops that invaded Nanjing and dedicated the mass murders, rapes, plunders and destruction of property.
An English newspaper The China Press, printed on October 10, 1937, carried photos of a gaggle of overseas photographers. They have been capturing photographs of Japanese plane bombing the Nanjing metropolis wall.
The New York Times on January 25, 1938 had a front-page story concerning the lasting chaos after the Japanese military occupied Nanjing, whereas two copies of a French newspaper, printed on September 11, 1937 and July 29, 1939, respectively, confirmed images of Japanese plane bombing Shanghai and Chinese police trying to find our bodies within the particles.
Lu Zhaoning, who was born in Nanjing, has been accumulating historic supplies for the Memorial Hall of the Victims in Nanjing Massacre by Japanese Invaders since 2004. This is his sixteenth donation to the memorial corridor, which brings the variety of his donated gadgets to greater than 2,300.
“The tragic event has become history, but we Chinese people must never forget it,” he stated on the donation ceremony. “There is no end to my donation.”
“The Nanjing Massacre is one of the most tragic pages of human history,” stated Zhou Feng, curator of the memorial corridor.
“In order to protect the historical memory together, our international friends and Chinese people both in China and abroad have spent years in collecting historical materials. The memorial hall will preserve and fully utilize the collection as evidence of the history to safeguard peace, ” Zhou added.
The Memorial Hall of the Victims in Nanjing Massacre by Japanese Invaders now has a group of about 192,700 gadgets.