Chapter 33 32. Zijin Mountain cheers in tears

During the 10 years from 1937 to 1947, in Nanjing, the fate of two people was as follows: The first one is that he came, then left; then he came back, then left again, and never came back after leaving—he was Mr. Chiang Kai-shek.Jiang entered Nanjing in 1927 and served as the chairman of the "National Government" the following year. He left when the Japanese invaded Nanjing in December 1937; Trial of Japanese war criminals who left the "Presidential Palace". The second person, he came and left again; he came back after leaving, and never left again-he is the Japanese Tani Hisao.Gu was the head of the 6th Division of the Japanese Invading Army, and the commander of the main force of the Japanese Nanjing Massacre, with blood and debts.In the early morning of December 13, 1937, he commanded the troops to march into Nanjing, and then indulged the troops in burning, killing, looting and raping in the city, which was a heinous crime.Gu later returned to Japan. On October 16, 1946, Hisao Tani was escorted back to Nanjing for trial. At the same time, 32 Class B and Class C Japanese war criminals were escorted back by the Chinese military police.

Hisao Tani was unable to leave Nanjing this time, and he was sentenced to death by Chiang Kai-shek's government and the Chinese people. As the chief culprit of the Nanjing Massacre, Hisao Tani was escorted back to Nanjing for trial. This was not only an extended trial of Japanese war criminals by the Tokyo International Military Tribunal, but also an extremely sensational event in which the Chinese people independently liquidated Japan’s Nanjing Massacre crimes. In fact, at the same time that Japan announced its surrender, according to the Potsdam Convention, the victorious countries including the Chinese government were preparing to liquidate the fascist war criminals. The Chinese government was weaker than the Soviet Union, the United States and other countries in liquidating war criminals. Many, one of the reasons is: In order to avenge the grievances between Wang Jingwei and Wang Jingwei during the Japanese rule, the first thing he cared about after the end of the Anti-Japanese War was to liquidate the traitors represented by Wang Jingwei. The trial of Japanese war criminals by the Tokyo International Military Tribunal is a major event.

Undoubtedly, under the international background at that time, it would have been impossible for the Chinese government not to stand up and liquidate the crimes committed by Japanese war criminals.Therefore, Chiang Kai-shek had to "clean up" traitors such as Wang Jingwei, and at the same time cooperate with the international situation to start liquidating Japanese war criminals. At the end of 1945, the War Criminals Handling Committee of the Chinese government conducted an investigation into the war criminals committed by the Japanese army in the Nanjing massacre, and made a list of nearly 60 war criminals, which were submitted to the United Nations War Crimes Review Committee for review.This list of war criminals includes Matsui Iwane, Asaka Palace Hatohiko, Yanagawa, Tani Hisuo, Nakajima Kinzago, Ushishima Sadao, Fujita Susumu and other main commanders of the troops when they invaded and occupied Nanjing. Among them, Asaka Palace King Hatohiko escaped trial for war crimes because he was an "uncle emperor"; Yanagawa and Nakajima Kinzago were dead, so they were not tried.Matsui Iwane was listed as a Class A war criminal and was tried in Tokyo.Among the rest of the list, Hisao Tani is the most important criminal who bears the brunt of the Nanjing Massacre. He was extradited by the Chinese government to Nanjing to accept the trial of the Chinese people.

On August 1, 1946, Hisao Tani was extradited to Shanghai, and then taken to Nanjing, where he was detained in Xiaoying Detention Center. The "Central Daily" reporter got the opportunity to interview the prison on the afternoon of Hisao Tani's arrival in Nanjing.The reporter wrote the following report today: The two Japanese culprits, Hisao Tani and Rensuke Isoya (the latter is the chief of staff of the Japanese Kwantung Army and the governor of Hong Kong - the author notes ).Amidst the daily expectations of millions of citizens, they finally arrived in Nanjing from Shanghai at 7 o'clock yesterday morning.It is the most appropriate and reasonable treatment for the murderer to be judged by the people who were killed; for the murderer to repent in the place where he committed the crime.

In order to introduce the situation of these devils to readers, the reporter went to Xiaoying Detention Center after 4:00 p.m. yesterday to visit the prison.Just in time for them to "let the air go".Thanks to the help of Mr. Cen, the translator, I joined the group of several "Lieutenant Generals" including Hisao Tani on the grassland of "Dancing Demons", and sat on the grass and talked for nearly half an hour. Little Green Grass, while answering all my questions freely. When they were arrested in Tokyo, Hisao Tani was the commander of the Hiroshima military administration.They were extradited to Shanghai by plane from Tokyo, and they were imprisoned in Yangpu Prison in Shanghai. When they arrived in Nanjing today, they had been in prison for 60 days.

When asked about their prison life, Gu Hisao said: It is the same as ordinary prisoners, but sometimes they get some convenience.When asked about his family situation, a wry smile appeared on his oval-shaped fat face with a full beard.He said: "I have no son, only two daughters, both married, and two sons-in-law are soldiers, and now both have no jobs. My own wife is also in Tokyo. I have not heard from them for two months. , the economic situation must be very difficult!" "Takashi Sakai was sentenced to death, do you know?" "have no idea." "A group of German war criminals including Goering, Ribbentrop, and Zidel were sentenced to hang the day before yesterday, do you know?"

"I don't know, none of us read newspapers." "How do you feel about their verdict?" "I'm in a 'no-self dream', and I don't have any feelings for them." Then there was another wry smile. "So, would you like to have a lawyer represent you at the trial?" "If possible, I would like to." "Are you ready to defend yourself?" "I'm ready. But I don't know why I was arrested. I haven't done a single crime in the six years before June last year. I'm just going to put the past in court, frankly. Let me state it." Hisao Tani made people laugh out loud with a "poof".The head of the division is so naive, his bald head is amazingly forgetful.He simply didn't know why he was arrested?Well, listen, the judge will tell you soon.

Suddenly, I turned a corner and asked him, "Excuse me, how did you come to Nanjing in the first place?" "On August 1, 26th year (Republic of China), I was still the head of the Sixth Division. At that time, I was ordered to set off from Kumamoto and pass through North Korea. By the end of August, three divisions were assembled, commanded by Lieutenant General Xiangyue, and participated in Yongding Afterwards, advance to Baoding, Zhengding, and Shijiazhuang. After receiving a secret order in Shijiazhuang to enter Dagu in late September, they went to Bakoupu by sea to concentrate on landing combat exercises. The regiment jointly attacked Hangzhou Bay, and finally landed successfully at Jinshanwei. Then they attacked Songjiang and Kunshan, with the aim of cutting off the retreat of the Chinese army. After that, they marched with the Mosong army through the south of Taihu Lake. Completely enter the city of Nanjing." He continued in one breath, and whenever he talked about a successful battle, the black scar on his left face that was as big as a broad bean glowed brightly, and it was easy to remind people of his murderous and unblinking past. fierce look.

"Now, Your Excellency, you have once again visited our city of Nanjing. How do you feel?" "—" He lowered his head and didn't answer. ... "The wind is gone." I turned to the military court, and in the hands of Director Zhang, I saw a picture: In Xinjiekou, Shanghai Road, Xiaguan and other places, there are piles of dead bodies of men, women and children lying here and there.On the biggest occasion, 9,000 compatriots were shot to death by machine guns, screaming incessantly.In the refugee shelter at Jinling University, a group of Japanese soldiers was announcing that those who were soldiers stood aside, and the imperial army would send them home with severance pay; those who were businessmen stood aside, so that they could be released to do business.As a result, a large group of so-called soldiers were pushed out with machine guns, shot, stabbed, and burned with foreign oil. Only 11 of them survived, and their wounds will soon be used as iron evidence in court.And among this group of man-eating devils, Gu Hisao, with blood smeared eyes, sat on a tall horse, holding his command knife high, as if saying: "Kill! Kill! Kill!"...

Gu Hisao, and other criminals who massacred Nanjing people, it is time for you to be tried by the Chinese people! When the news that the massacre who killed hundreds of thousands of citizens was escorted back to Nanjing came out, the whole city of Nanjing was shaken and excited!People rushed to tell each other, especially the families of the victims and the witnesses of the massacre. Weeping and excited, they ran to the prosecution department and the court with the old and the young, and accepted the facts of the court with the facts of blood and tears. Investigation and Evidence Collection - Prosecutor: Are you here to testify about the Nanjing Massacre?

Witness: Yes. Prosecutor: Do you know that giving false testimony is punishable by up to seven years in prison? Witness: I know. Prosecutor: Well, now you can give evidence. Witness: OK. ... In those days, the judges and prosecutors of the military court of the Ministry of National Defense received huge crowds of complainants every day. They were all witnesses and victims of the Nanjing Massacre. Their testimony was extremely precious and powerful, which played a key role in the trial of war criminals. role. All witnesses were required to answer the above questions in advance and were told that if they gave false testimony, they would be sentenced to up to seven years in prison.After understanding the legal regulations, stamp and press the final testimony record. No one disputes this.Almost everyone said one sentence: The Japanese killed my relatives and almost killed me. We are here to testify. ... According to court statistics, there are as many as 2,784 witnesses about Hisao Tani and his Japanese army's crimes in the Nanjing Massacre obtained through such investigations and citizens' self-reports! The long-awaited public trial of mass murderer Tani Hisao finally opened on February 3, 1947—— At 11 a.m., the first witness appeared. The majestic presiding judge Shi Meiyu gave an order: witness Zhou Yu. (Secretary Shi Yong) The bailiff led an old man into court. The presiding judge personally questioned the witnesses: name, age, place of origin? Witness: My name is Zhou Yiyu, 60 years old, from Nanjing, and I live at No. 32, Jinshajing, Zhonghua Road. Question: This court heard that when Nanjing fell, did you collect and bury corpses in Chongshan Hall? Answer: The Chongshan Hall was run by everyone. I was the chairman at the time, and I handled 112,266 corpses for burial.We have printed a statistical table, let me send it to the court for reference tomorrow, and there are still a lot of people who have not been buried. Question: This court is now scheduled to start the public trial of the war criminal Hisao Tani at Lizhishe on February 6. At that time, you are still invited to testify in court about the atrocities committed by the Japanese army when Nanjing fell. Answer: Yes. Question: When did the Japanese army enter the city? Answer: Entered the city on December 13, 26th year of the Republic of China. Question: Which army entered the city? Answer: Tani Hisao's troops advanced into the city, and Nakajima's troops entered the city on the 14th. Question: Did you leave when Nanjing fell? Answer: Did not leave. Question: Has anyone in your family been killed? Answer: No. Question: Have you ever witnessed the atrocities committed by the Japanese army? Answer: I have witnessed the massacre seven or eight times. Question: About how was he killed? Answer: When the body was collected, it was seen that a bayonet was stabbed from front to back. Q: Where did you collect the body? Answer: They were collected everywhere, and there were corpses everywhere at that time. Question: How else was he victimized? Answer: There were also Japanese troops who were outside the basement and broke into the basement with guns. Q: Were workers present when the burial was carried out? Answer: Yes. Question: Is it still possible to find the workers at that time? Answer: Yes.Let me find it and bring it to testify in court on February 6. Question: When the corpses were collected, did the corpses collected include soldiers? Answer: They all wear ordinary people's clothes, not military uniforms, both men and women, old and young. Question: Have you ever seen the worst murder? Answer: I personally saw a chicken seller in Doumugong, a vegetable market in Neiqiao. She was about 50 years old. After being gang-raped by three Japanese soldiers, she stuffed rags into her vulva and died of abdominal distension.The time is on December 16 of this year. Question: When Nanjing fell, when was the massacre the most? Answer: Most were killed in the first week after entering the city, and some were also burned. ... On the next three days, February 6, 7, and 8, the witnesses in court had a face-to-face debate with the defendant Hisao Tani. The "Central Daily" on February 9, 1947 reported the grand occasion in the court like this—— (Report from our newspaper) The Military Tribunal of the Ministry of National Defense for Trial of War Criminals held a hearing in the Lizhi Club yesterday (8th) afternoon to continue the trial of Hisao Tani, the chief culprit in the massacre.About a thousand people attended the event, and there were no empty seats. Mayor Shen was also present.At 2:05, the defendant faltered and was escorted into court by a military policeman.After the judge announced that he would continue to investigate the evidence of the crime, the criminal Gu raised his hand and asked to speak.Briefly: According to the witnesses, most of the crimes occurred in the Zhonghuamen area in the past two days. In fact, the 12th and 13th two-day war was fierce, and there were no civilians in the area. act of killing.In the investigative documents, the defendants found that many of the crimes were committed by the Nakajima forces and did not occur within their defense zone.Please pay attention to the above statement.The presiding judge immediately listed three mass massacres: (1) On December 16, 2006, 57,000 Chinese soldiers and refugees who were captured at the foot of the Shogunate were driven to the Xiaguan River by the Japanese army and shot with machine guns. The shooting and bayonet killings, and the corpses dumped in the river, was one of the most massacred incidents. (2) On the 25th, more than 9,000 refugees were massacred in Xiaguan. (3) On the evening of the 16th, more than 5,000 refugees were taken from the Overseas Chinese Guest House to the Zhongshan Wharf in Xiaguan, where they were machine-gunned and dumped in the river.In the above three cases, the victims who narrowly escaped all appeared in court to testify.The judge also added that during the battle of Nanjing, the "Tokyo Daily News" published news about the two-day military killing contest. Within three days, one killed 105 people and one killed 106 people. The defendant was asked about the above-mentioned Have you heard about everything?Gu Zuo quibbled that: the judge stated that the defendant was hearing for the first time that the massacre in Xiaguan was committed by the navy or other troops and had nothing to do with the defendant.In the remaining defense area, it is like no one's land, appealing to the gods, nothing happened.It was a mistake in the court to identify the defendant as the principal culprit of the massacre. If the supreme commander of the day could be summoned to court, the atrocities of the massacre would be clear. So far, witnesses such as Liang Tingfang, Xiang Zhenrong, Chen Fubao, Liu Zhenhan, Ding Hui and other victims have appeared in court.Among them are the lonely widow, the loving mother who lost her son, the monks and nuns in Taoist robes, the white-haired and bald old man, the victims who escaped death, with different identities and ages. tragedy.However, the defendant still categorically denied it and shifted responsibility to the Chinese plainclothes team and the traitors who took the opportunity to rob. When mentioning that the defendant connived at his subordinates in Shijiazhuang, Baoding and other places to rob residents Chen Sizhe's clothes, antiques and forced women to do physical comfort, the prisoner Gu confessed: At that time, under the command of Commander Xiangyue, he was busy preparing to go south. It is possible, and unlikely, that what is being said is neither detailed nor unprecedented. After a ten-minute break, at 4:20, the debate session began.First, Prosecutor Chen Guangyu stood up and made a speech to make a conclusion.Chen was methodical, firm in tone, and serious in his attitude. He briefly said: At the beginning of the public trial on the first day, the prosecutor briefly described the massacre. Committed massacre, arson, destruction of property, robbery, rape and other inhuman and cruel crimes.According to the statistics of the Red Swastika Society and other charitable organizations who buried corpses, the number of victims in Nanjing City reached 400,000.This kind of atrocity, which has never been seen in ancient times, is really a disgrace in the history of human civilization. Even if thousands of Hisao Tani were punished, it is not enough to wash away this shame and to avenge such deep hatred.According to more than 2,000 questionnaires and Ms. Cheng Jie's statement, since Zhonghuamen is far away from the refugee area, there are the most victims in this area. Such a crime with solid evidence cannot be evaded by the defendant with a few words. Secondly, the Nanjing Massacre was a whole act. Among the major cities in the country, Nanjing was the most devastated.Nanjing is the capital of the completion of China's reunification, the capital of preparations for the War of Resistance, and the capital of commanding the War of Resistance. It has the highest revolutionary sentiment and the strongest national consciousness.In this whole massacre, all participants, no matter where they are stationed, should be responsible for the massacre.Gu Hisao led his troops to Zhonghua Gate on the 12th, and entered the city on the 13th. During these two days, there were only the defendant's troops in the city. Finally, when talking about the issue of evidence, Chen said: the three-day trial, the city council and the local court survey, the Red Swastika Society's burial statistics, the crimes mentioned in the European and American reports, the files in the safe zone, The films made by the American pastor and the self-photographed films of the Japanese army are solid evidence. If the defendant cannot provide strong evidence to the contrary, he will not be able to get rid of his responsibility if he just uses evasive and irresponsible words to prevaricate. Chen also said that the defendant's attitude was arrogant and his words were unreasonable, and the responsibility should not be allowed to pass the buck indiscriminately.In such an unheard-of tragedy, even if one hundred thousand Tani Hisao were imposed on him with tens of thousands of punishments, this humiliation and misery could not be washed away. Such a heinous culprit should be sentenced to death. After speaking, there was applause from the auditorium.While the defendant was listening to the translation by the Japanese translator, the orderly in the court lit a candle on the dock. As the candle flickered, Gu Prison's expression was no longer as calm as before!Scratching one's head and nose, sometimes raising one's head thoughtfully. Then the defense began. The defendant had a stubborn attitude, pretended to be sophistry, and denied all crimes. Chief criminal Gu said: The prosecutor’s conclusion was completely wrong, because he took the defendant’s responsibility for the crimes in the Zhonghuamen area as his starting point, fabricated records without factual basis, deliberately fabricated, and identified the defendant as a mass murderer, so-so, incorrect and unilateral The defendant must not admit to the investigation of this aspect.He said: Many civilians, because they were killed by other Japanese troops, took advantage of this rare opportunity to take revenge and put all their crimes on the defendants.For two days, the witnesses who testified in court stated that the accused troops did not do anything. Xuan also said: based on conjecture, it cannot constitute a criminal condition. Such a trial can be said to be unprecedented in the history of world trials.For the facts of a crime, the perpetrator and the victim should be arraigned in court to determine whether there is a crime or not. A unilateral statement cannot become a fact of a crime.Defendants want a fair judgment without error. Finally, the prisoner used various excuses, such as the sabotage of the Chinese plainclothes team, the bombing of the plane, and the empty "military discipline" and some statistics, to deny responsibility for the atrocities. , re-interrogation at regular intervals. Court arguments continued on February 25, 1947.The Chinese witness is Guo Qi, the author of "Record of Blood and Tears in the Capital" and Major General of the National Defense Forces.Guo Wenwen wept with blood and tears.The murderer Tani Hisao denied it in every possible way, and his defense lawyer also booed.In the court, the pros and cons, the fierce debate, the smoke of gunpowder, affects the hearts of millions of Nanjing citizens... The executioner Tani Hisao was a very cunning war criminal. The crimes he committed when he led the Japanese army to occupy Nanjing were extremely deep and painful, so the citizens heard that such a war criminal was detained. After the Nanjing trial, when the government authorities called on the victims of the past to testify, the enthusiasm and initiative of the Nanjing citizens was unprecedented.One of the evidences was later listed as the "Jingzi No. 1 Certificate" of the military tribunal for the trial of war criminals in Nanjing. This certificate is quite legendary, and it is also ironclad evidence exposing the Japanese army's massacre in Nanjing. "Jingzi No. 1 Certificate" is now in the Second Historical Archives of China. It is a photo album with 16 frames of photos, all of which are real scenes of the Japanese army's brutal massacre of civilians and rape of women. It is said to be "ironclad evidence" because of the photos It was taken by the Japanese soldiers themselves, but it was a pair of Chinese who kept this "ironclad evidence". This also made those Japanese war criminals who wanted to deny it but couldn't deny it have to bow their heads in front of the crimes they committed... The owner of this photo album is Luo Jin, who grew up in Nanjing. Luo Jin was only 14 years old in 1937. During the Japanese occupation, his family was too poor to flee, so he had to hide with the refugees in the "International Refugee Safety Zone" established by Rabe and the others.Because of her young age, Luo Jin escaped massacres by the Japanese army again and again. In 1938, after the situation in Nanjing was somewhat calmed down, Luo Jin went to the Huadong Photo Studio near the Changjiang Road Guyilang in downtown Nanjing to work as an apprentice to support his family.At that time, the Japanese army was still massacring civilians everywhere in the urban area of ​​Nanjing. One day in January 1938, a second lieutenant of the Japanese army came to the store to develop two rolls of "Sakura brand" film, and the owner of the photo studio handed over the job to Luo Jin.Luo Jin, who took the film, went to the darkroom to develop it. Inside, he found that it was full of shots of Japanese soldiers beheading Chinese soldiers and civilians and insulting and raping Chinese women.Seeing the bloody and naked Japanese atrocities, Luo Jin was extremely indignant, so he secretly developed a set of negatives and kept them for himself.Afterwards, many Japanese soldiers came to develop photos, and Luo Jin secretly added a few more photos. In this way, a total of more than 30 such photos were preserved.Luo Jin is not very old, but he understands that once the Japanese find out what he is doing, he will definitely kill him. The photos of these Japanese military evidence were preserved.Luo Jin purposely bound a small photo album with cardboard. In order to express his inner anger at the atrocities committed by the Japanese army, he drew a sharp knife dripping with blood and a bleeding heart pierced by the sharp knife on the cover, and wrote: A big word "shame".In order to commemorate the deceased compatriots, he drew black borders around the heart, sharp knife and the word "shame".From the more than 30 photos collected, Luo Jin selected 16 photos that best reflected the atrocities of the Japanese army, pasted them on the album, and then burned the rest of the photos.For safety reasons, he initially hid the photo album under the chopping board in the dark room of the photo studio, and later moved it to his home. In 1940, Luo Jin was forced by life to become a trainee in the "Traffic and Telecommunications Training Team" of the puppet government of Wang Jingwei. The training team was stationed in Pilu Temple.Their teacher was a Japanese military instructor, who often beat and kicked Luo Jin and the others.Luo Jin was afraid that it would be unsafe to keep her photo album at home, so she quietly took it to the training team and hid it under the bed board of the dormitory.One day at the beginning of the next year, the Japanese and puppet military police suddenly carried out a large-scale investigation in the temple. In a hurry, Luo Jin hid the photo album in a hole in the toilet wall of Pilu Temple.Unexpectedly, a few days later, when he wanted to transfer the photo album, he found that the photo album had disappeared.Luo Jindun felt bad, so he fled Nanjing quickly. This escape went straight to Shanghai, Fuzhou and other places, and finally settled in Datian County, Fujian. Who took the photo album?It was only later that Luo Jin found out that it was taken away by Wu Xuan, his alumnus from the training team, and kept.Wu Xuan was the same age as Luo Jin, and he was also a child of a poor family. When Nanjing fell, he also witnessed the atrocities committed by the Japanese army.One day, when Wu Xuan went to the toilet, he accidentally discovered that there was fresh mud on one of the walls of the low hut. Feeling strange, he reached out and found a photo album. When he opened it again, Wu Xuan was shocked. , full of photos of Japanese atrocities that horrified him.Afraid of being seen by others, Wu Xuan immediately hid the photo album on his body.It's not a problem to put it on the body, Wu Xuan thought about it, so he hid the photo album under the pedestal of a Buddha statue in the main hall of the temple.At first, Wu Xuan thought that he had done this "safety", but he didn't know that the next day, all the officials in the "training team" were gathered by the students, saying that someone had hidden a Japanese picture album. Dead, dead."The students were extremely nervous, because someone spread: Luo Jin, who escaped, showed the photo album to the students, and many people knew about this photo album.But in the end, none of the students admitted that they had seen it, so the matter was left alone.But Wu Xuan has been hanging in his heart, worried that one day he will be discovered by the Japanese, this is no joke.When he was thinking about how to deal with the photo album, the training team ended. Wu Xuan put the photo album on the bottom of his suitcase, and then left the "training team" with the photo album without saying goodbye to his classmates.In the next few years, Wu Xuan went through many twists and turns, and finally preserved these photos. The Anti-Japanese War was won and Nanjing was liberated.Wu Xuan's "National Army" has long been disbanded, and he is unemployed at home.One day, after he saw an announcement on the street from the Provisional Council of Nanjing calling on citizens to report crimes committed by the Japanese army, he immediately went home and took out the photo album that had terrified him for six years from the box under the bed.Early the next morning, Wu Xuan solemnly presented the photo album to a 40-year-old City Council staff member who received him. After receiving Wu Xuan's statement and photo album, the Provisional Council of Nanjing Municipality, after investigation and verification, determined that these photos were indeed taken during the Japanese occupation of Nanjing, and they were ironclad evidence of Japanese atrocities. Listed as "Jingzi No. 1 Certificate" by Nanjing Military Tribunal. On March 3, the court was raised again to continue the debate.Although Gu Hisao had "a haggard face and a slumped look", he still spoke eloquently, quibbling, denying his guilt, and even said that such a trial in Nanjing "has no precedent in the world's judicial history".She was angrily reprimanded by Shi Meiyu: The defendant must not repeat what he has stated many times! Today is the last court debate between the prosecution and the defense.Until 5:30 p.m., the Chinese party, Chen Guangyu, made the final statement. He retorted: The defendant has been using empty words and repeating his words during several days of debate in order to evade responsibility.The defendant has always said that he advocated goodwill between China and Japan throughout his life. Why did he still lead troops to our Chinese territory to carry out aggressive wars at the age of retirement?You said that the witnesses in the court were all fabricated. Could it be that the investigation of thousands of victims by the Nanjing City Council, the safe zone file hosted by international people, and the killing contest between two Japanese soldiers recorded in your "Tokyo Nihonshimbun" Are the reports and photos of the Japanese army fabricated, as well as the pictures on the film materials taken when the Japanese army entered the city? "The evidence of the defendant's crime is solid, there is no room for excuse, he is arrogant and unreasonable, he has committed a heinous crime, and insulted the laws of the Chinese government. !” When Prosecutor Chen said this, the courtroom burst into applause. "Hush! An unfair referee will cast a shadow over the friendship between China and Japan!" Hisao Tani was still chattering in the dock. The court debate continued until 7.30pm. "Boom!" The presiding judge Shi Meiyu knocked down the gavel heavily and announced: "The court is adjourned today. The verdict will be pronounced at the Lizhi Club at 3 pm on the 10th of this month!" The Lizhi Club in the old Nanjing era is a very famous place.Nanjing people are very familiar with the Lizhi Club on Zhongshan Road. It still retains three magnificent palace buildings, namely the auditorium, Building 1 and Building 3, all of which face south. In front of Building No. 1, there is a stone tablet with Chiang Kai-shek's autograph written on it: Stand up to others Revolutionary On the afternoon of March 10, 1947, the hard-pressed citizens of Nanjing crowded the auditorium of the Lizhi Club to a chord. The citizens were all looking forward to witnessing the shameful end of the executioner who killed hundreds of thousands of Nanjing people. The curtain of the court opened—— Six mighty armed gendarmes escorted the criminal Gu Hisao to court.At this time, Hisao Tani had lost the prestige he had when he first arrived in Nanjing. He was full of white hair, and his steps were clearly staggering. Only a pair of small eyes still showed a cunning and sinister luster. In the center of the court stood the presiding judge Shi Meiyu, and on both sides of him stood the judges Song Shutong, Li Yuanqing, Ge Zhaotang, and Ye Zaizeng.Chief prosecutor Chen Guangyu and Gu Hisao's defense lawyers Mei Zufang and Zhang Rende stood on the left and right sides of the courtroom.There are also several translators, Japanese witnesses, and representatives of Chinese witnesses. "Now I will read the court's verdict against the war criminal Hisao Tani—" Shi Meiyu raised her voice and began to read.The "No. 1" verdict of the military tribunal of the Ministry of National Defense of China is not short. In order to let the young generation of China and the people of the world (including Japanese) understand the truth of the entire Nanjing Massacre, the author reads it from the Second Historical Archives of China. A portion of the verdict is reproduced here: During the battle, Gu Hisao jointly massacred captives and non-combatants, raped, robbed, and destroyed property, and was sentenced to death. fact: Tani Hisuo was a fierce and skilled general among the Japanese warlords. He had joined the army as far back as the Russo-Japanese War and made great achievements.Since the Sino-Japanese War in the 26th year of the Republic of China, he served as the head of the Sixth Division. In August of that year, he led his troops to China to participate in the war of aggression.First moved to Hebei Yongding River and Baoding, Shijiazhuang and other places.At the end of November of the same year, we frequently lost battles along the Beijing-Shanghai line, and moved our positions to guard Nanjing.The Japanese warlords took our capital as the center of the war of resistance, so they assembled the elite and brutal Sixth Division Tani Hisao Troop, the Sixteenth Division Nakajima Troop, the Eighteenth Division Ushishima Troop, and the 114th Division Suematsu Troop And so on, under the command of General Matsui Iwane, they will join forces to attack, and because of the strong resistance of our army, while resentful, they will carry out a planned massacre after the fall of the city as a show of revenge.The Sixth Division led by Hisao Gu served as the vanguard. On the evening of December 12, 26 (that is, November 10 in the lunar calendar), they captured the Zhonghua Gate. The vanguard troops climbed into the wall with rope ladders and started massacre.In the next morning, he led his army back into the city, and together with Nakajima, Nishidao, Suematsu and other troops, went to various districts of Beijing to carry out large-scale massacres, followed by burning, rape and looting.The worst period of the Zha massacre was from December 12th to the 21st of the same month in the 26th year, that is, during the period when Tani Hisao's troops were stationed in Beijing. In Shiguanyin, Xiaguan Caoxie Gorge and other places, my captured soldiers and civilians were collectively shot and killed with machine guns by the Japanese army, and their bodies were burned to wipe out their traces. There were more than 190,000 people including Shan Yaoting.In addition, there were sporadic massacres, and more than 150,000 corpses were buried by charitable organizations.The total number of victims was more than 300,000.The corpses are scattered all over the place, and it is horrific. The cruelty is beyond words.For example, at 1:00 p.m. on December 15, more than 2,000 soldiers and policemen from our army were captured by the Japanese army and sent to Hanzhong Gate.At 6:00 p.m. on the 16th of the same month, more than 5,000 refugees gathered at the Overseas Chinese Guest House. They were escorted to the Zhongshan Wharf by the Japanese soldiers, shot to death with machine guns, and dumped their bodies in the river. In the process, he went with the drifting corpse and survived.On the night of the 18th day of the same month, 57,418 soldiers and civilians who were imprisoned in Shogunate Mountain were tied up with lead wires and driven to Caoxie Gorge in Xiaguan. They were also shot with machine guns. Those who struggled were stabbed to death with random knives, and all the corpses were poured with kerosene and cremated.Another example is that on December 12th, the village woman Wang Xu was burned to death by the head of the Japanese army when she got off the pier outside the Zhonghua Gate.On the 13th of the same month, Wei Xiaoshan, a villager, was hacked to death because Gu Hisao's troops set fire to Duicao Lane in Zhonghuamen and rushed to rescue him.On the same day, monks Longjing, Longhui, Nizhenxing, Denggao, Dengyuan, etc. were all slaughtered in the temple outside Zhonghuamen.On the 14th, citizen Yao Jialong and his family took refuge in Zhanlongqiao, Zhonghua Gate, and his wife was raped and murdered by the Japanese army. His eight-year-old child and three-year-old daughter were thrown into the fire with the point of a gun because they were crying, and burned alive. .From the 13th to the 17th of the same month, when it was extremely cold, the Japanese army stationed outside Zhonghuamen ordered more than 30 villagers to go into the water to catch fish.An old man was tied and hung from the top of a tree, aiming a gun for target practice, until he hit the target, the rope broke and fell to his death.Another Japanese military officer competed in killing people. One of them killed a hundred and five people, and the other won by killing a hundred and six people.On the 19th of the same month, Xie Shanzhen, a village woman over 60 years old, was stabbed to death by the Japanese army at Dongyue Temple outside the Zhonghua Gate, and inserted into her vulva with a bamboo pole.Counting from December 12th to the 21st of the same month, there were 886 documented cases of innocent soldiers and civilians in our capital being massacred by the Japanese army.Among the victims in the Zhonghuamen area, in addition to the above list, there are 378 cases including Wang Fuhe, Ke Dacai, Zhuo Lutong, Shen Yougong, Liu Guangsong, Zeng Wendang, Yu Bifu, and Chen Xiaoshi.After the Japanese army fell to the city, they raped and lusted everywhere.According to the statistics of the International Committee of Overseas Chinese, on December 16 and 17, 26, more than a thousand Chinese women were raped by the Japanese army.And the method is bizarre and cruel, which is unprecedented in actual history.For example, on December 13, Tao Tangshi, a civilian woman, was gang-raped by the Japanese army at No. 5, East Renhouli, Zhonghuamen, and had her body disemboweled and burned.Xiao Yushi, a pregnant woman who was nine months pregnant, Huang Guiying, a 16-year-old girl, and Chen Ermei, and a 63-year-old village woman were also brutally raped in the Zhonghuamen area.Ding, a village girl, was gang-raped by thirteen Japanese soldiers in Duicao Lane, Zhonghuamen. She screamed for help because of the unbearable brutality, and she was stabbed in the lower abdomen to death.From the 13th to the 17th of the same month, after the Japanese army raped the young girl outside the Zhonghua Gate, they ordered the passing monks to continue the rape. The monk refused and was sentenced to death by castration.Also, at the head of Tucheng outside the Zhonghua Gate, there were three young girls who threw themselves into the river in shame and anger because they were raped by the Japanese army.All the women I stayed in Beijing were in danger, and they took the lead in fleeing to the safe zone designated by the International Committee.The Japanese army disregarded internationalism, but also acted on their animal desires. Every night, they crossed the walls and entered the interior, regardless of age, groped and raped.Although foreign nationals protested repeatedly to the Japanese military authorities in the name of international organizations, the Japanese general Hisao Tani and others ignored them and let his subordinates continue to wreak havoc.Wherever the Japanese army arrived, burning and massacre were often carried out simultaneously.Our capital was the target of its terrorist policy, so the burning was unparalleled.At the beginning of the fall of the city, along the Zhonghua Gate to the Xiaguan River, there were fires everywhere, and the flames lit up the sky, and half of the city was almost reduced to ashes.The loss of my public and private property can hardly be counted.Dozens of houses in Xunxiangli, Zhonghuamen, were burned down. Hundreds of residents, including He Qingsen, Xia Honggui, and Bi Zhang, lived in ruins and had no place to live.中华门钓鱼巷、湖北路、长乐路、双闸镇各处居民，曾有年、常许氏、冯兆英等房屋数百幢，亦俱焚烧，荡然无存。至十二月二十日，复从事全城有计划之纵火暴行，市中心区之太平路火焰遍布，至夜未熄，且所有消防设备，悉遭劫掠，市民有敢营救者，尽杀无赦。日军更贪婪成性，举凡粮食、牲畜、器皿、古玩，莫不劫取。如在石坝街五十号，抢掠国医石筱轩名贵书籍四大箱，字画古玩二千余件，木器四百件，衣服三十余箱。又在集庆路、任管巷等处，掠劫民间牲畜、粮食、钱财，不可胜计。即国际红十字会病院内，护士财物、病人被褥、难民食粮，亦遭洗劫一空。美大使职员陶格拉斯晋钦(Douglas Jenkine)、美籍女教士格蕾丝苞尔(Miss Grace Bauer)、德人乌拉比、巴赤德、波濮罗、蒸姆生( Rabe，Barchardt，Poblo，Jeimssen)等住宅，并经先后搜劫，损失綦重。种种暴行，更仆难数。日本投降后，谷寿夫在东京被捕，经我驻日代表团解送来京，由本庭检察官侦查起诉。 reason: ... 中华民国三十六年三月十日 在判决书的下方落款处，有审判长、审判官和书记官的签名。 “判得好！”“判得好！” “该死的日本鬼子早毙了！” “打死谷寿夫！” “打倒日本侵略者！” “为亲人们报仇——！” 当审判长宣读完毕的那一瞬，法庭内外一片欢呼声，而在这雷动海啸般的欢呼声中，人们依然还能听到无数哭泣的怒吼…… 是啊，我苦难的南京人，你们失去了多少亲人！流下了多少泪水与血水！现在，你们终于有机会看到仇人的下场了！ 金陵在欢呼！钟山在哭泣！ 莫愁湖在哭泣！雨花台在欢呼！ 中华门在欢呼！光华门在哭泣！ cheer!哭泣！哭泣！cheer! 这是这一天南京城内的故事和景象……