Chapter 48 Chapter 47: Hell on Earth——"Jinan Xinhua Institute"

"Jinan Xinhua Institute" is a concentration camp established by the Japanese invaders stationed in Jinan in March 1943 at the northwest corner of Guanzhaying Street in Jinan City to enslave and torture Chinese prisoners of war.It was attached to the Jinan Military Judgment Conference of the Japanese invaders (that is, the military court), responsible for imprisoning my captured, captured anti-Japanese soldiers and patriots (including captured Kuomintang military and political personnel), implementing fascist enslavement education, and forced to engage in various slave labor. And the sinful place where we tortured and killed our anti-Japanese soldiers and civilians.

The "Jinan Xinhua Academy" was directly under the staff of the 12th Army of the Japanese Army in Jiji (43rd Army after 1944).There are offices, manager's office, auxiliary official's office, guard team, Xingya construction team and general team department in the courtyard.Its headquarter also has a counselor's office, interrogation section, security team, training team, factory team, farm team, blood-drawing team, sanitation team, and sick room, etc., which are in charge of the interrogation, "management", "education and training" of prisoners of war. ", hard labor detention and torture.The Japanese army bought a group of captured Kuomintang officers and Han Hao as leaders and acted as thugs.A group of wolf dogs were also specially trained to punish prisoners of war who had "deviated" behavior.

The "Jinan Xinhua Courtyard" was heavily guarded, with water trenches nearly two meters deep dug around, multiple layers of barbed wire were erected, power grids were installed on the fence, watchtowers were built at the four corners, and a watchtower about three feet high was set up in the middle of the courtyard. Close surveillance. The "Jinan Xinhua Institute" has detained more than 2000 to 3000 people who were captured and arrested all the year round.Anyone who is detained here must have 200 cc of blood drawn first before the pre-trial.There are about a dozen types of punishments in the preliminary trial, mainly including beatings, waterboarding, burning, and hanging.Beating means beating the whole body with bamboo knives, wooden knives, leather whips, etc.; water torture means repeatedly pouring cold water and pepper water into the mouth; "Hanging" means that the hands and feet are bound with ropes or the fingers are hung from a beam.During the torture, many people lost their lives.After pre-examination, those who are identified as important prisoners of war or important elements will be sent to the Jinan Military Law Conference for retrial and sent back to hard labor; those identified as ordinary prisoners of war will be included in the "training team". After "training", according to their "performance", age, and physical condition, they were engaged in various kinds of slave labor or escorted to Northeast China and Japan to serve as laborers.

In the "Jinan Xinhua Institute", the captured and arrested lived an inhuman life.They have to do more than ten hours of heavy labor every day, but what they eat is sorghum cakes mixed with sand and rotten carrot leaves. The occasional small rice is also moldy and moth-eaten, and what they drink is dirty. unboiled water.Long-term hunger and fatigue have made them skinny and skeleton-like. Many people secretly drink paste or catch mice and burn them to survive.Their living quarters are dark, damp, and full of dirt. Dozens or even hundreds of people live in a common room, and the air is dirty.Most of the clothes they wore were ragged clothes from the dead. They didn't cover their bodies in summer, and they didn't keep out the cold in winter.They have no shoes to wear and work barefoot all year round. Many of them lost their feet in the severe winter, and even froze to death in the ice and snow.On New Year's Eve in 1944 alone, more than 60 people froze to death.

On weekdays, they are often tortured and destroyed by Japanese fascist thugs.The Japanese army stipulated countless commandments to restrict the activities of the prisoners of war, such as not being allowed to look around while working, to report when they urinate and defecate, and not to raise their heads indoors.Violators will be punished by hand-banging, kneeling, and beating with sticks.For the so-called "bad performance" or "deviant" behavior, they are tortured. The light ones stripped naked and climbed the chimney, or walked around the field with stones on their heads, or were held by the genitals to show the public, etc.; the severe ones were put in confinement Or bitten by wolf dogs, skinned alive, eyes gouged out, ears cut off, buried alive, etc. In June 1944, some of my captives planned to escape from prison and were informed by traitors. The three leaders were immediately stripped naked and tied to a flagpole.Another time, the Japanese army stripped off more than 20 male and female prisoners of war who were about to escape, and tied them to wooden stakes.Several workers from Wansheng Street in Jinan City were arrested and tortured and humiliated after they were taken to the "Xinhua Institute". They were accused of running away while going out to work.After the Japanese found out, they strangled their palms with wire, hung them from a tree, beat them hard, stripped off their clothes, escorted them to the foot of Wuying Mountain, and asked them to dig a hole by themselves. Finally, they were stabbed to death by the Japanese and thrown into the hole.The confinement room set up at the gate of the "Jinan Xinhua Institute" is a place dedicated to assassinating prisoners of war.All prisoners of war who were "accused" by the guards on duty for "deviating" behavior were sent to the confinement room, tied to special wooden stakes, and used as "targets" for the Japanese army's assassination training, and stabbed to death alive.

The wards and health classes of the "Jinan Xinhua Hospital" were places where the Japanese army used special methods to torture and kill prisoners of war, and they were called "Ghost Gates".Anyone who is sent to the sick room is tantamount to being sentenced to death.Because the patients couldn't get any medical treatment here, and they didn't have enough food and clothing, and they were tortured to death soon.Jiao Fengming, leader of our squadron in Huansi District, Changshan County, instructor Han Yuzhe and countless anti-Japanese fighters died in this way.The so-called sanitation class was actually a bacteria and poison laboratory set up by the Japanese army and a place where blood was drawn and prisoners were tortured and killed.In addition to drawing blood from the prisoners who had just entered the Xinhua Institute, the Japanese army also regularly took blood from the prisoners who were incorporated into the "blood drawing team", which caused many people to change from strong to weak, and from weak to death.The bacteria cultivated by the "Epidemic Prevention and Water Supply Department" in Jinan must first be brought here to conduct efficacy tests on prisoners of war.For those prisoners and patriots who had a certain influence in the society, the Japanese army did not dare to deal with them openly, so they shot bacteria or poison into their bodies under the guise of curing diseases and killed them.The bacteria injected mainly included typhoid, cholera, dysentery, paratyphoid, pertussis and other bacterins;In 1943 alone, the Japanese army used bacteria and poison to kill more than 100 of my captured prisoners.

The "isolation room" for sick patients set up by "Jinan Xinhua Hospital" is dark and humid, the air is dirty, the plague spreads, and the rats are infested. Many seriously ill patients have their ears, noses, eyes, lips, fingers, and toes bitten off by rats here... …When they were dying of illness, hunger, and rat infestation, they were first thrown into the morgue, and then thrown down Wuying Mountain.Some sick patients were still moaning when they were loaded into the corpse cart: "I'm not dead, don't throw me away..." Some were still screaming miserably after being thrown down the mountain.At first, one or two carts of corpses (8 per cart) were pulled out every day, and then gradually increased to three, four, five or six carts a day, and more than a dozen carts.Soon, under the cliff became a "pile of bones".From the west of "Jinan Xinhua Courtyard" to the east of Dikou Village and the south of Huangjiatun Village, there are many bones everywhere, and the mandibles, teeth, and limb bones accumulated in some pits are as thick as one foot.There was a song circulating among the nearby residents, "Xinhua Courtyard, Xinhua Courtyard, it is the palace of hell in the Yangjian. Whoever wants to go here will draw blood, goug out eyes, and sometimes call wolf dog food; if you are sick, you can only die. It is futile to rule. If ten people go in and one does not come out, it is really more difficult to survive than ascend to the sky!"

In August 1945, after Japan announced its unconditional surrender, the Kuomintang took over the "Jinan Xinhua Academy" and disbanded it in November of the same year.According to statistics, from March 1943 to August 1945, the "Jinan Xinhua Institute" successively imprisoned about 35,000 anti-Japanese soldiers, civilians, and patriots. Except for more than 2,000 people who were taken over, they were tortured to death by torture and hard labor. There were more than 15,000 people, more than 100 people were killed by blood drawing, hundreds of people were killed by poison injection, hundreds of people were killed by bacteria injection, and more than 10,000 people were escorted to the Northeast and Japan as laborers.According to my captives and others, in just 15 months from May 1943 to August 1944, more than 17,000 anti-Japanese soldiers, civilians and patriots were imprisoned here.

The entire history of the hell on earth "Jinan Xinhua Institute" is a criminal history of Japanese fascist mobs enslaving and killing Chinese prisoners of war and innocent people.The ironclad evidence is like a mountain, and no one can erase it! According to the records in the compilation of organizational profiles of the Japanese invaders "Jinan Xinhua Academy" kept by the Jinan Public Security Bureau: In the spring of 1943, the "National Salvation Training Center" established by the 4221st Unit stationed in Jinan by the Japanese aggressors to detain our captives went bankrupt after implementing the so-called "lenient and soft" policy, and established the "Jinan Xinhua Institute", which was established by the Yamada and Suzuki Ichiro, the political staff of the Japanese Garrison Staff Department, were in charge.This is a fascist concentration camp where we massacred our anti-Japanese patriotic compatriots and revolutionaries.The site was located in the north of Xitou Road, Guanzha Camp, Dikou Road, Jinan City, until the end of Japan's surrender.

The evils established by the Japanese invaders to massacre Chinese patriotic soldiers and civilians and our revolutionaries are beyond description.Because very few victims survived at that time, and the main criminal was repatriated to the country after the sun fell, it is difficult to verify the specific crimes one by one.The criminal facts compiled here can only be used as a rough illustration, and are based on the fragmentary materials obtained through investigation. The "Xinhua Institute" was set up to cooperate with the Japanese invaders' military operations against China. Its function was to detain, torture and kill the so-called "Communist Party" and "Eight Routes" captured by our army, officers and soldiers of Jiang's army, and Jinan and other places. suspect.According to incomplete statistics, more than 30,000 people have been imprisoned here, among whom more than 15,000 were tortured and tortured to death, and more than 10,000 were sent to Northeast China, Hokkaido, Japan and other places as hard laborers.The cruel methods used by the Japanese invaders generally include the following types:

(1) Hard labor: After the captured and arrested people are admitted to the hospital, they are organized into various labor teams for forced labor, such as mining and land reclamation.Due to the high labor intensity and harsh living conditions, mass deaths often occurred. (2) Hunger: Each detainee is only given a few taels of sorghum cakes mixed with rocks and sand every day, sometimes eats rotten carrot leaves, and drinks raw water.People were tortured until they were skinny. (3) People's "sick caves": Due to the cold and hunger, there were many sick people. The Japanese invaders ignored their illnesses and treated them as "infectious diseases". The patients were stripped naked and forced into the "sick caves" for isolation.Because the cave is dark and humid, the air is polluted, and the rats seriously infringe on the human body. Many patients were tortured to death soon after entering. (4) Live burial: Anyone who was deemed to have an infectious disease, shortly after entering the "disease cave", was driven by car to the foot of the west mountain of the hospital to be buried alive. (5) Blood draw: A large amount of blood was drawn from the detainees, especially for the young and middle-aged, each time 200cc of blood was drawn for the medical needs of the Japanese invaders. (6) Poison needle injections. For captured and arrested persons with national integrity, under the guise of treating diseases, inject poison needles into their bodies and kill them. (7) Dog bites: Anyone who is found to be resisting or preparing to escape will be tied to a tree and called to the dog to bite. (8) Slavery education: The Japanese invaders forced the detainees to accept the so-called "coexistence and co-prosperity" and "building a new order in Greater East Asia" enslavement education in an attempt to divide and disintegrate politically. According to the exposing and accusation materials of the former Jinan People’s Procuratorate about the masses near the “Jinan Xinhua Institute”: From March 1943 to August 1945, the Japanese invaders established the "Xinhua Institute" at the northwest corner of Guanzhaying Street, Jinan Commercial Port, and killed a total of 35,000 Chinese prisoners and innocent people. In May 1946, we found that the big wooden kang in the south room in the northeast corner of the hospital (the "special hole" specially designed by Japan) was covered with blood on the floor and on the ground, and the stench was pungent.From the west of "Xinhua Courtyard" to the east of Dikouzhuang and the south of Huangjiatun, there are many bones in the field. Dozens of people are buried in one cave, and the human bones accumulated in the soil are more than one foot thick. Anyone who was arrested in the "Xinhua Institute" was first drawn with 200cc of blood, and then locked in a stinky and dark confinement room.For the first three days, she was not given food, but only fed some salt water and porridge.Generally, "prisoners" have to do hard labor for more than 16 hours a day.According to Zhang Zhenjun who was arrested in the "Xinhua Institute", more than 2,000 people were often detained there.The management is strict, and everyone has to report to the team leader when they urinate and defecate. If they are careless in the house, they will be punished with hands and knees, and they will be beaten to death with wooden sticks.Every day I eat two bowls of millet rice, two bowls of cabbage soup, and I can't get a sip of hot water to drink.After people were tortured and became sick, they were thrown into the "special sick cave". They only had gruel twice a day, and they defecated and defecated in the room.There are many rats in the sick cave, so the corpses of people who died in the sick cave are rarely intact. What is especially cruel and inhumane is that the Japanese invaders often tortured the captured people by biting them with dogs, stabbing them with knives and shooting them, putting them in prison, and injecting them with poison.Nearby residents can hear the miserable screams coming from the "Xinhua Courtyard" almost every day.Once, Japanese invaders escorted more than 20 people out to work, but they were brutally killed because they wanted to escape.The vicious Japanese invaders first stripped these 20 people of their clothes, the men were killed with bayonets, and the women were raped and then cut open to death.A few workers in Wansheng Street, Jinan City were arrested and taken to the Queen of Hell. After being tortured and humiliated, they decided to escape while going out to work.When the Japanese found out, they tied their palms with wire, hung them from a tree and beat them hard, then stripped them naked, took them to Xishan, forced them to dig a hole by themselves, and finally stabbed them to death one by one with bayonets. , thrown into the pit. When the Japanese invaders forcibly recruited laborers to the Northeast and Japan, the "Xinhua Institute" became a labor supply organization. Only once in May 1944, more than 500 people were sent to Japan for hard labor.

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