Recently, a pawn shop owner in Minneapolis received for sale a photo album from the World War II period. It was full of photos of Southeast Asia and China during World War II taken by soldiers stationed in Southeast Asia.
includes more than 30 color photos of the atrocities committed by the Japanese during the Nanjing Massacre. One page of actually says The advance - Chungking China (attack on Chongqing)!
Above, there were PLA soldiers who were younger than us back then. Their equipment was extremely rudimentary and they only had a "big shoulder" in their hands. Their bodies were lean and their skin was tanned, but their sitting postures were still very capable. Their determined eyes can still be felt on their blurry faces! In sharp contrast to the female soldier in the photo below, she has trenches, clean equipment, and a " machine gun ", and her figure is even stronger than him.
This picture shows the scene of the war at that time, with soldiers lining up in long lines. At that time, there was only one word filling the sky and the earth: gunpowder smoke!
The person who obtained these photos said: They will not be given to the original owner nor to a private collector. He said they will be sent to a museum for everyone to see. Let everyone know this history and witness the impressions brought by these wars!
When he opened the first chapter of this "color album", we were shocked to find that this was a record album with "The Forbidden City" as the homepage. In 1932, the Forbidden City in China, with its huge palaces and vast city, was clearly visible, as if It reminds people to dream back to the top of the Forbidden City and experience the Chinese city with 5,000 years of civilization.
But... it's not what it used to be anymore.
The second page is the preserver's memoir "My Oriental Photo Album". This "photographer" should have gone to Southeast Asia in 1937-1938.
There is also the word "China Coast" on it. It is a very beautiful passport that looks like an agreement. It should be a Chinese customs entry certificate.
The album also includes landmarks in other Southeast Asian countries, such as statues and temples in Bangkok .
As I flip through it, the painting style of "My Oriental Photo Album" gradually changes!
The owner of the pawn shop who introduced this picture also began to lament. As he reacted, pictures of various soldiers, wars, and even gunpowder scenes appeared in the album!
Then, this "registration holder" began to express his feelings, because his "identity" was also very unusual!
This "My Oriental Photo Album" will be known to us only if it falls into the hands of the "right" person!
Look at what he said:
When this whistleblower was in college, he majored in Japanese culture studies. During class, he also heard his professor tell him about the brutal events of the Nanjing Massacre! I once told him that this is a history without evidence, because most of the photographic evidence was destroyed by the Japanese army and no longer exists. But this "My Oriental Photo Album" captured stories that he had only seen in books, and had photos as evidence.
So he finally decided that he would not pay for it, and knowing the contents, he could not afford it, and he could not return it to its owner. Instead, it should be placed in a museum so that the people of the world could witness this period of history. evidence. He also has another point of view: History may repeat itself in the future, so we must learn from it, discuss it more, and try our best to prevent such history from repeating itself!
Currently, the "Memorial Hall for the Victims of the Nanjing Massacre by the Japanese Invaders" in Jiangsu, my country, is also trying to contact the other party. If this news is true, the truth of history will be further presented to mankind around the world. The sacrifices of our ancestors and The sufferings suffered will also be known to more and more people.
In addition, I also noticed something. The "other party" flashed a picture in the introduction of the news: the script should be filmed tomorrow.
This sentence means that the content about the "Nanjing Massacre" will be made into a video. The script has been written and he is ready to shoot it later, because he pointed out that the scene that is too "bloody" cannot be broadcast in the live broadcast, so Let everyone wait for his video.
This is it, I don't know what to expect.
If I expect him to be true, then I will inevitably fall into sadness again. This period of history has caused unimaginable trauma to every flesh-and-blood Chinese.
But if I expect him to be false, history will not be erased or updated. History is a foregone conclusion. I hope that their Western museums can really display color photos of the "Nanjing Massacre". Let humans all over the world know what we have endured, what we have experienced, and what we have been crying about!
