The day after Zhou Hexuan came to New York, Hu Shi and Zhang Pengchun also came. They were very familiar with the Pulitzer brothers, and Hu Shi even had a relationship with Henry Pulitzer for nearly fifteen years.
Hu Shi and Chang Pengchun also made great efforts to launch the "Committee on Non-participation in Japanese Invasion of the United States". Regarding the propaganda work of Japan's invasion of China, Hu Shi gave speeches in the United States, while Chang Pengchun wrote plays and performed them in the United States, and cooperated with the American church.
Promotional activities are coordinated with each other.
Zhou Hexuan vaguely felt that the United States had a pair of invisible hands that connected Hu Shi, Chang Pengchun, the American church and American academia.
But it is definitely not the Skull and Bones Society, because the Skull and Bones Society is not monolithic. Some families hope that the United States will not participate in the war, some families hope that the United States will join the war as soon as possible, and some families hope that the United States will join the war at the right time.
Although Stimson had great influence in Skull and Bones, he was still unable to reconcile this contradiction. He preferred that the United States join the war as soon as possible. The problem was that others were unwilling, so he could only achieve his goal by supporting the civil movement to resist Japan and aid China.
Zhou Hexuan wants to build momentum in the United States, and the Stimson and Whitney families also want to build momentum. Their current goals are the same.
At the same time, the forces opposing sanctions against Japan were even more terrifying. Those interest groups joined forces to suppress Roosevelt and Stimson from taking any rash action.
In mid-June, John Rabe finally came to the United States.
He is tall, slightly chubby, with round eyes, and his head is completely bald, leaving only some hair around it.
John Rabe's first words after meeting Zhou Hexuan were: "I'm sorry, Mr. Zhou. I couldn't bring any videos about the Holocaust. They were confiscated by the Gestapo."
"You also made a video?" Zhou Hexuan asked in surprise.
Rabe explained: "It was filmed by Mr. Magee in the United States. I got a copy and planned to take it back to Germany to expose Japan's war crimes. But..."
After Mr. Rabe’s careful explanation, Zhou Hexuan finally understood what happened.
When Rabe first returned to Germany, he received a warm welcome and was awarded a Red Cross Medal by the German State Secretary.
Immediately afterwards, Rabe sent his report to Hitler. A few days later, the Gestapo arrested him, took away his diary and film copies, interrogated him for a few hours, and released him. At the same time, the Gestapo warned Rabe that in the future
No more reports are allowed, no books are allowed to be published, and Magee's Holocaust film is not allowed to be shown.
Historically, it was not until October 1938 that Rabe got his diary back. Now it is a little different, because Zhou Hexuan promised to help Rabe publish a book in the United States, and Rabe asked the police to get the diary back in advance.
Rabe's experience of leaving Germany was also very thrilling. He hid his diary in the middle of his suitcase and was almost found by surveillance agents. He took his family to Sweden under the pretext of traveling. Because Sweden has good relations with Germany, he was not subject to any restrictions.
The Gestapo made things difficult. After arriving in Sweden, he took a boat to England, and then took a boat overnight to the United States.
Rabe said thankfully: "Mr. Zhou, fortunately the telegram you sent me was delivered through the Chinese Embassy in Germany. If it had been sent to me directly, it would have been discovered by the Gestapo. They have been secretly monitoring my external communications.
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"What are your plans for the future?" Zhou Hexuan asked.
Rabe said: "I won't know in the future, but now I just want to make the diary public so that more Westerners know about the atrocities of the Japanese army. Although there is no clear data, the Japanese army massacred at least 100,000 people in Nanjing!"
Zhou Hexuan quickly asked: "How did you calculate it?"
Rabe said: "The Red Swastika Society buries at least 200 corpses every day, although there are still 30,000 corpses yet to be buried. This is only the data in mid-February. Therefore, only from the corpse burial report of the Red Swastika Society, we can
It is estimated that the Japanese army massacred more than 42,000 people. In Nanjing, in addition to the Red Swastika Society, those responsible for collecting corpses were also the Red Cross Society, the Hui Burial Team, the Tongshan Tang Burial Team, and the Chongshan Tang Burial Team.
, the Nanjing Provisional Government burial team, and sporadic private burial teams. Even if these burial teams buried half as many bodies as the Red Swastika Society, the total would exceed 100,000 victims. As for more numbers, I dare not think about them.
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Zhou Hexuan was silent for a moment and said, "Can I read your diary first?"
"Of course." Rabe quickly opened the suitcase and saw three medals and a piece of red silk.
One of the three medals was a jade medal issued by the Nationalist Government. The piece of red silk cloth was a gift from the refugees he rescued when Rabe left Nanjing. The red cloth read: "Who are you?"
One hundred thousand living Bodhisattvas."
Rabe untied the red silk cloth, turned out the diary and handed it to Zhou Hexuan, while he stood aside and kept smoking.
To be honest, although Zhou Hexuan likes to read various historical books and historical materials, he had not read anything about the Nanjing Massacre before time travel. Because when he was in high school, the school organized a patriotic education exhibition, and the photos of the Nanjing Massacre made him sick to his stomach.
After that, he resolutely refused to have any contact with me again.
At this moment, with an unusually heavy heart, Zhou Hexuan opened the manuscript of Rabe's diary and read it carefully.
The first part was normal, about preparing for the establishment of an international safe zone, but then it became shocking. In fact, Rabe's words were very common. When the Japanese troops broke into the safe zone, he used "patronize" and when women were snatched away by the Japanese troops, he used "patronize".
means "pull away".
But behind these ordinary words, there is infinite blood, cruelty and ugliness hidden.
Sometimes, on the same day, there are dense records of who was taken away at what time, and who was taken away at what time.
In Rabe's account, there were also a few good people in the Japanese army, such as the Japanese military police who stopped soldiers from raping and robbing, and a Japanese soldier who treated an injured nun. However, there were only a few records of such "good Japanese soldiers", and the rest were all a group of people.
Something inferior to an animal.
At the same time, it can be seen from the diary that the Japanese are deliberately concealing the truth. Westerners will be driven away from larger massacre sites in advance, but Rabe is still allowed to witness the massacre of hundreds of people at a time. Moreover, the Japanese army will also
Providing food to the international safe zone and trying to be as hypocritical as possible to make Westerners think that not many civilians were massacred.
In his diary in December, Rabe mentioned a rumor that 60,000 Chinese people had been killed. But Rabe had doubts about this because he had not witnessed it with his own eyes, and he could not believe that it was true.
Zhou Hexuan flipped through page after page, and Yu Peichen followed beside him.
After watching for a long time, Yu Peichen couldn't bear to see him anymore, so he ran out of the room and went outside to calm down.
There was dead silence in the room, except for the sound of Zhou Hexuan turning the pages of the manuscript.
