Lost and Spy

Chapter 532
Great Bright Cinema.

"Quick, someone fainted again. Quick."

The voice of urging quickly passed.

faint?
Can you faint while watching a movie?
I feel that the foreigners here look at each other in blank dismay, completely unaware of what movie is being shown inside and why such a scene occurs.

"Ladies and gentlemen."

Moyes cleared his throat and said, "I'm also curious about what happened inside. To solve this mystery, I think we should go in and have a look."

So, this group of people walked into the Great Bright Cinema...

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The sound of sobbing, screaming, and even howling wailed, one after another in the movie theater.

Some people looked at it and suddenly became fainted.

Even those well-informed reporters, some of them would suddenly run to the corner, vomiting profusely.

A diplomat's wife just walked into the movie theater, only glanced at the big screen, and suddenly let out a sharp and terrifying cry.

No one blamed her, because it's too normal to cry like this here...

……

Ma Guisheng's tears kept flowing there.

He didn't even know how he controlled the emotional projection.

He thought it was a tragedy for a small person like himself to live up to now.

But at this moment, he knew that compared with those Nanjing people who suffered terrible sufferings in the film, he was so happy.

At least, he is still alive.

Meng Shaoyuan next to him was also crying.

No one has seen Meng Shaoyuan cry.

But now he is really crying there.

He knew of the existence of these films, but it was the first time in his life that he saw what was on the films.

He thought he was mentally strong enough, and he thought he was already prepared.

However, when he saw the video with his own eyes, he realized that the so-called strong mind was totally vulnerable to real human tragedies!
And how many hardships these precious films have gone through...

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Miss Lester, a British missionary, bravely brought the videos to Japan, naively thinking that if some Christian and political leaders in Japan could see them, it might help to stop the atrocities.

She did show the film to a small group of Christian leaders in Tokyo, but her act was quickly banned and the film has since disappeared.

The film provided to the German diplomat Rosen was almost unknown for half a century.

In the United States, in early March 1938, Fitch, who arrived in California from Nanjing, screened Magee’s film at a lecture and was interviewed by the Los Angeles Times. In April, Feige screened the film for the Foreign Affairs Committee of the U.S. House of Commons, the War Intelligence Agency, and reporters in Washington.In addition, he has spoken to a considerable number of churches and government agencies about the film.

Later, the pictures on the film were remade into photos, and 10 of them were published in the American "Life" magazine published in May 1938. This was the first real report in the world that publicly exposed the atrocities committed by the Japanese army in the Nanjing Massacre in the media.

In May of the same year, Magee temporarily returned to the United States for vacation and brought back a more complete film, which he also screened in churches and other places.

Unfortunately, for most Americans, this film is really "too scary", and people often faint when they see those atrocities, which also limits the spread of the film.

Decades later, the Rosen Report, housed in the Potsdam Archives in Berlin, Germany, was discovered.

In this report, written on February 1938, 2, Rosen not only talked about Magee's film and called for the strict protection of this material, but also included a detailed and unsigned English-language catalog of film footage .

Rosen even specifically requested that the film be shown to Hitler because "it is an astonishing document of its time".

The Rosen report quickly attracted the attention of the Japanese media. However, because the actual film was not discovered at the same time, the Japanese refused to acknowledge the existence of the film, and even slandered it as a "ghost film."

In order to find these films, China and Japan are completely in a race against time.

Thanks to Magee's son, David Magee, who finally found the film and the camera that was shot in the basement.Despite being 50 years old, the film is still of very good quality and plays well.

Thanks to David Magee for generously donating these precious films and cameras to China!

The Nanjing Massacre, since then, has been ironically proved!

……

Many thanks to John Magee for making these videos.Please also firmly remember his dying will:

"If I live again, I still want to serve the Chinese people. China is my home."

……

And now, all the regrets, with the appearance of Meng Shaoyuan, no longer exist!

These videos are shocking and frightening.

But you don't have to wait decades to see the light of day again.

Japan, undeniable.

Whether it is now or in the future.

Meng Shaoyuan burst into tears.

He found that all his hard work and dedication are so worthwhile at this moment...

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"Some Japanese soldiers came, some of them looked like wild beasts, and I was supporting a poor wounded soldier, who was stepping forward in pain, when one of the Japanese dragged him away from me, and twisted his wounded neck violently, Bind his hands together, and bind the hands of another wounded man..."

The commentary keeps appearing there:

"We met at the door an angry officer like I've never seen before! His voice sounded like a dog barking. If I were combustible, he looked like he would kill me burn it.

The horror of the past week is like nothing I have ever experienced.I never dreamed that the Japanese soldiers were so barbaric.This is a carnage, sharp week.

I don't think there has been such atrocity in human history for a long time, only the massacre of the Armenians by the Turks can be compared...

Chinese women knelt down and begged Japanese soldiers not to kill their sons and husbands, who were ruthlessly driven together because they were suspected of being soldiers.

Tens of thousands of civilians were also tied up with ropes and driven to the banks of the Yangtze River in Xiaguan, to the banks of numerous small ponds and to open fields, where they were machine-gunned, bayoneted, rifled, and even Executed with grenades..."

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With the third roll of film, those screams and vomits died away.

Everyone was watching the film quietly there.

In the movie theater, there is a terrible, deathly silence.

Almost everyone had tears in their eyes.

Chinese, foreigners.

Wu Jingyi's body trembled there.

She thought she was strong, but she found out she was wrong.

I am so vulnerable.

Cai Xuefei had to desperately pinch her tiger's mouth with her nails to ensure that she would not pass out.

She couldn't bear to continue watching, but forced herself to continue watching.

She must firmly remember these, and never forget a single bit of them.

Xu Zhu always thought that he was an emotionless person, but now he found this idea so ridiculous.

Sinclair covered his mouth, his hands trembling constantly.

He would rather interrogate one hundred of the most difficult prisoners, and really couldn't bear to see this scene again.

The two men, Moyes and Xie Weisi, never imagined that they would be so sad when they cried...

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Three rolls of film were finally unloaded.

Each volume is 37 minutes, for a total of 111 minutes.

……

Meng Shaoyuan got up slowly.

In his day, it was hard to even find a 105-minute version, and George Fitch risked his life to come up with a reel of just 11 minutes.

And now in his hands, he holds eight rolls of film.

And Kodak Shanghai Company has promised to help him make a large number of copies.

The whole world should know what happened in Nanjing!
The proof is like a mountain!

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The movie ended, but there was still no sound.

No one got up and left.

Everyone sat there silently, silently looking at the empty screen.

Tears and sadness are the only things here.

"I am Xie Weisi, Vice Consul of the Consulate General of the United States of America in Shanghai, Republic of China."

Xie Weisi had to control it with great perseverance before he could slowly walk to the front. His voice was crystal clear in the cinema:

"Today, every word I say does not represent the consulate or the United States of America, but represents myself.

Just now, we saw the bloodiest, most tragic, and ugliest scene in human history.Before coming here, I was attending a reception at the Japanese consulate, where we also saw some photos.

How the Chinese welcome the Japanese, and how the Japanese treat the Chinese well.But when I came here and saw these videos with my own eyes, I can be sure that everything is a lie!

The Japanese and the whole world told a big lie. They slaughtered unarmed civilians. They were committing the most despicable crime in human history, but they tried every means to lie and cover it up.

Everyone here today is a witness. We have witnessed a history that we should never forget, even though we want to forget it.It should not be forgotten even by our descendants.

We couldn't stop the war, and we couldn't stop the Japanese from continuing their atrocities, but we could at least tell everyone we knew what we saw.

Please remember Nanjing, please remember those victims.I suggest a moment of silence to Nanjing. "

He bowed his head first.

Everyone stood up and bowed their heads.

"Please remember, don't forget at all!"

When the silence was over, Xie Weisi raised his head, and his voice suddenly increased:

"Shameless atrocities, ugly Japan, suffering China. Please try our best to help this country, maybe our ability is limited. Thanks to the heroes who took these videos and brought them out to the public! Please use your Power, spread the content of the film, let every corner of the world know the tragedies that happened in Nanjing, China!"

Meng Shaoyuan took a deep breath.Did it, and he knew he still did it!
(End of this chapter)