French friend hands over materials on Japan’s invasion of China to the Nanjing Massacre Victims Memorial Hall
Scanned copies of historical materials on the Nanjing Massacre have been added to the Memorial Hall’s collection, supplementing evidence of Japan’s invasion of China and wartime diplomacy Multilingual archives reveal details of the atrocities, click to learn more about these 1,993 pages of new evidence
On May 4, a team led by French friend Bai Shijie handed over scanned copies of a batch of materials related to Japan’s aggression against China to the Memorial Hall of the Victims in Nanjing Massacre by Japanese Invaders.
These materials come from the Nantes Diplomatic Archives Center of the French Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs, and include 42 diplomatic documents totaling 1,993 pages, spanning the period from 1920 to 1943. Their contents cover the Nanjing Massacre, Japan’s aggressive expansion, military archives from the War of Resistance period, and wartime French diplomatic records in China. These multilingual materials provide new evidence for research into the history of Japan’s invasion of China.
Relevant researchers said that some of the documents have important value for mutual corroboration. For example, a letter written at the time by B. D. Schindler, chairman of the Emergency Committee of Nanking University, to the Japanese Embassy, records in detail the atrocities committed by Japanese troops inside the city and within the Safety Zone after the fall of Nanjing. The memorial hall said that these materials will be housed in the Nanjing Massacre Documentary Center, helping to further deepen historical research and once again proving that the relevant atrocities committed during Japan’s invasion of China were already known to the international community long ago.