A beam of light shines on the big screen, without any title logo, the name of the documentary appears directly!
Then there are a few lines of subtitles:
"This film was shot in Nanjing, the capital of China. Because some of the scenes are too bloody, please watch with caution. It is not recommended for minors under the age of 16."
"Because the documentary photographers and rescuers, the victims are still in China and are still under the threat of the Japanese army, the faces of the characters in this film have been blurred, and the specific names of the relevant people have been pseudonyms."
Everything on the screen, the main film begins, and there are a few lines of subtitles:
"What we saw and heard is only a fraction of the atrocities that occurred in this city, but I think it is enough to give you an idea of the hellish experience that people in this city experienced. Recorder Mr. J."
"February 1937, Nanjing before the Japanese occupation."
The documentary uses 6mm film, black and white and silent, but just the subtitles at the beginning make people feel heavy.
The scenes at the beginning were basically empty shots, taken before the Japanese army attacked Nanjing, and they were all about Nanjing's buildings. Street scenes appeared from time to time, showing the audience the prosperity of the Chinese capital. Although Nanjing had suffered a lot at this time,
After the bombing, half of the residents of Nanjing had evacuated.
Each scene has a text explanation. In order to make it easier for American audiences to understand, Zhou Hexuan even added a partial map of Nanjing in the later stage.
"Oh, God! It's terrible."
After only six minutes, some ordinary viewers couldn't stand it anymore and stood up and left the theater in a hurry.
This documentary is so terrifying that no one can find the complete version online, only a few intercepted shots. But even if the bloody scenes are deleted, it still makes people feel chilling, not to mention that the audience is in the theater at this moment.
What I watched was the original version.
More and more ordinary audiences left the theater, and in less than 20 minutes, only one-third of them were left. When all the 05-minute documentaries were screened, there were only a few ordinary audiences left in the theater, and the rest were specially filmed by Zhou Hexuan.
Celebrities and journalists invited to watch the movie.
There was deathly silence in the cinema, and even the heavy breathing could be heard.
After a long time, Situ Meitang stood up tremblingly. Situ Juncong quickly helped him and said: "Slow down."
"If you wait any longer, it will be too late. Go back and donate money!" Situ Meitang held back a ball of evil fire in his heart.
Zhang Pengchun said to Hu Shi next to him: "Brother Shi..."
"Come with me for a walk." Hu Shi interrupted, his voice a little hoarse.
Einstein, Chaplin and others had similar reactions. If it were just ordinary atrocities, people would be angry, reviled, and discuss it. But after watching this documentary, they can only fall into silence. It has completely deviated from human nature, even if
Even animals are nobler than the Japanese soldiers who participated in the massacre.
Stephen Wise's face was gloomy. He had no good impression of the Chinese, but he thought of the Jews in Germany. The Japanese army carried out a massacre after occupying Nanjing, and it was more convenient for Hitler to massacre the Jews. Everyone knew that guy was a
madman.
We must find a way out for our Jewish compatriots as soon as possible!
Stephen Wise really wants to resettle Jewish refugees in Palestine, but that is the territory of the British. Even after the establishment of the state of Israel after World War II, the British stood up to support the Palestinian resistance, and now they can’t even think about snatching food from the tiger’s mouth.
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Not to mention the United States. Even though this year’s immigration quota has not yet been reached, and even though the Jewish consortium supports Roosevelt’s New Deal, it still cannot get ordinary Jewish refugees to enter the United States.
The best way is to cooperate with the Chinese and preserve a glimmer of hope for the Jewish nation first. As for Japan, Stephen Wise is very hostile. What good ally can Germany be?
"Mr. Zhou, I will try my best to help you promote it." Stephen Wise left after saying that.
"Thank you." Zhou Hexuan personally sent the other party out of the theater.
Stephen Wise has great energy, and his support is equivalent to the support of the American Jewish consortium.
Today there are three leaders in the Zionist movement, namely religious leader Stephen Wise, scientist Chaim Weizmann, and political activist Ben Gurion.
The latter two are the first president and prime minister of Israel respectively. Because they have been active in Europe for a long time, they are more famous and influential. Stephen Wise also made great contributions to the founding of Israel. Without him, he would be able to connect the American Jewish consortium.
If Chaim Weizmann makes trouble, it will be difficult to win the support of President Truman.
As expected, the American Jewish media made concerted efforts to publicize the Nanjing Massacre the next day and linked the Nanjing Massacre to the Nazi persecution of Jews.
However, the effect is far from ideal.
The attendance rate of this documentary is also very low, because the scenes are too bloody, and the American people are unwilling to watch it, and even if they watch it, they will not last long.
This is similar to the situation in history. American magazine reporter David Bergamini later said in a book: "People felt that the mutilated corpses, blood-spattered houses and babies on bayonets shown in the film
It was too horrific to be shown in public, so only a few people watched the film."
Universal Pictures, United Artists and Warner Bros. were unable to hold on because these three film companies had non-Jewish shareholders. The stalls were too big but there were very few moviegoers, so those shareholders began to object, and they could only continue to shrink.
Screening times.
A week later, only one theater was showing the Holocaust documentary. Not only did it not make any money to support China's war of resistance, Zhou Hexuan and the distributor actually lost a lot of money.
However, Zhou Hexuan also brought about a bigger change, that is, the vigorous publicity by radio and newspapers made Americans, even if they had not watched the documentary, know that the Japanese were a group of beasts and that the Japanese had carried out inhumane massacres in China.
The sentiment in the United States to aid China has become even higher, and capitalists with relevant interests have taken the opportunity to promote the movement of the American people to "boycott Japanese goods" to reach its peak early.
While some help, others cause trouble, and some large consortiums also take action. They mobilize civil society groups and frantically advocate American isolationism.
For example, the organization "America First Committee" actually helped to screen the Holocaust documentary. Their goal was to scare the American people, use the documentary to prove the cruelty of the war, and take the opportunity to promote that the best choice for the United States is to remain neutral and not get involved in any foreign country.
Everything is futile, and war can only bring harm to the American people.
The American people were soon divided into two groups. One group advocated active aid to China, and the other group advocated not provoking Japan. The two sides were at odds in newspapers and radio.
This kind of public opinion war is actually a battle between the ASP and the Jewish community, as well as a battle between related interest groups.
But no matter which view they hold, the American people have the same view of Japan, that is, "the Japanese are very cruel" and "Japan is an unreasonable country."
The U.S. private survey agency quickly conducted a public opinion poll, and the results showed that: 95% of Americans opposed the United States' participation in the war; 92% of Americans were disgusted with Japan; 90% of Americans sympathized with China; 3% of Americans supported a boycott of Japanese goods;
7% of Americans support scrapping the U.S.-Japan trade agreement.
This opinion poll can be summarized as follows: Americans think the Japanese are bad and the Chinese are pitiful. They think they can help China and impose sanctions on Japan. But war is too terrible and we Americans must not fight it.
