An article off of the Front Page Sections on how the students of Guanfu High School dressed as Nazis for their Christmas parade, translated…
The Nazis in Germany had committed countless war crimes, the genocide of Jews was a wound in history, certainly, it’s not something we should make fun of. But, there were Nazis who’d helped the Chinese people too.
As the Japanese took down Nanking in 1937, the head of the Nazi Party in Nanking, was the chairman of Siemens from Germany, John Rabe, who’d led the setting up of a security region in Nanking immediately, and took in refugees to his own home, and, there were, an estimated 200,000 Chinese people who’d escaped persecution because of his actions, and Rabe was nicknamed Schindler of China. After the Germans lost the war, Rabe lost his livelihood, due to his German connection, and couldn’t get by, and, because the people in Nanking were grateful for him, taking them in, they’d gone through the government, and paid for Rabe’s living, until the Nationalists were force to vacate China. And this story was filmed, and, there was a plaque in Rabe’s Nanking residence, memorializing him. And so, although Hitler was among the evilest people in history, but, NOT all Nazis are criminals.
Looking back to how the Japanese murdered the countless number of Chinese, which is multiple times MORE than how many the Nazis murdered in Europe. The Taiwanese who were forced onto the frontlines of the war, too many to be counted, let alone those women who were sent to the Japanese military as whores. And yet, the Japanese government NEVER admitted to what they’d done, nor paid for the evils, and the new government of Taiwan seemed to be totally disinterested in this “justice that’s needed” for how Taiwan was violated.
Especially, when a former president felt very PROUD, for being a Japanese citizen. And, if we don’t punish people like these, and blamed those indifferent students for dressing up as Nazis, what sort of values, are we instilling?
This stemmed from a long and winding history of pain, of how the country was, taken by the war, and, that is, the shared common painful bond that’s kept us connected, and yet, because the public ranted on how those high school students dressed up as Nazis, and how they’d gotten reprimanded, but, what of HOW when the Japanese invaded Taiwan, and did ALL those awful things to the women and children? That, is what the writer of this article is trying to point out, is that we’d allocated our angers in the wrong places!
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