As the reader said, if there is no record, the truth of atrocities is like a drop of water in the sea, which will pass away and no one will care about it, and no one will remember it in the future.
As life gets better and better, many people will not feel the taste of suffering, just like grandparents often say famine and war. In our age, people can only hear about it, let alone during the Anti-Japanese War. If those great men didn't record these things, with the death of the victims, the truth and history would eventually disappear. This seems to have never happened, but the history is strikingly similar. As Eli wiesel, the Nobel Peace Prize winner mentioned in the book, said: Forgetting the Holocaust is the second massacre.
Unlike the Germans, the Japanese don't admit their crimes. Many war criminals have not been brought to justice, but they still live happily and even hold important political affairs in Japan. They enshrined criminals in the Yasukuni Shrine and falsified this history in textbooks. They have rooted aggression in the hearts of the next generation when they were educated.
The Japanese committed countless crimes, which dwarfed Hitler's behavior. The whole book makes people angry and sad to read, and it is very, very depressing after reading it. I can also understand why the author committed suicide because of depression after writing. When collecting information, she has to bear the unbearable pain of ordinary people mentally and the threat from Japanese or American politicians.
This book is not only a simple description of some specific data of the Holocaust, but also an analysis of why those Japanese war criminals are crazier than the devil. Chrysanthemum and knife said: Japan is a very contradictory nation, respectful and polite, arrogant and cunning, extremely loyal and extremely rebellious, extremely inferior and extremely conceited. The reason why those soldiers are so inhuman is entirely related to the education they received from childhood. When it is time to cultivate values, the warriors commit suicide, train in cold blood in military camps, have no fear of life, and have been instilled with hostility and aggression against China people since childhood.
Why is the Nanjing Massacre not as well known as the Nazi massacre of Jews and the American bombing of Hiroshima? It is because the victims have kept silent, but behind this silence is actually political manipulation, which stems from China's weak national strength, almost no right to speak in the international arena, and its hectic civil war.
In the book, we also saw some foreigners who saved the people of China. What impressed me deeply were vautrin and Rabe, who were the saviors of the people of China, and vautrin committed suicide because he was physically and mentally damaged by helping the victims. Rabe was implicated because he provided Hitler with materials to record Japanese crimes.
Now our life is getting better and better, and our country's position in the world is getting higher and higher, but we must never forget the past, because those who forget the past are doomed to repeat the same mistakes. We also have no right to forgive Japanese criminals on behalf of the victims. Hatred can't be drawn casually, but mindless hatred is not desirable. The national humiliation is unforgettable and we are constantly striving for self-improvement.