German woman Edith Gunther has recently donated 41 photos to the
Memorial Hall of the Victims in the Nanjing Massacre in east
China's
Jiangsu
Province, presenting new evidence of the holocaust committed by
Japanese invaders during the Second World War.
The photos were all copies of pictures taken by Edith's husband,
Karl, who, together with other friendly foreigners, helped set up a
refugee camp at the Jiangnan Cement Plant during the massacre,
saving as many as 50,000 lives.
Karl Gunther took great risks in taking pictures reflecting life in
the Qixia Temple and Jiangnan Cement Plant refugee camps between
the winter of 1937 and the spring of 1938, and the demolishing of
the cement plant by Japanese troops.
"These pictures preserved by foreign nationals will help reveal the
truth of the Nanjing Massacre and offer new evidence against the
vicious arguments of Japanese rightists who have attempted to deny
the aggressors' crimes," Zhu Chengshan, head of the memorial hall,
said at the donation ceremony.
About 300,000 Chinese were killed by Japanese troops after the fall
of Nanjing, the then capital of the Kuomintang government, in the
winter of 1937.
(Xinhua News
Agency April 8, 2002)