Rescue of weixian concentration camp

At the end of 1944, the Japanese invaders' own food supply was very short, and the refugees in the concentration camp were more desperate and dying. Dewease sent a letter to Huang Lede, the headmaster of Wenguang Middle School, through Zhang Xingtai, requesting to raise funds and buy food emergency relief. After seeing the letter, Huang invited Zhang Xingtai to bring 1,000 yuan counterfeit banknotes to Dewei Company for emergency, and then donated them to wei county parishioners, and donated them to, respectively, through Yin, the president of the nursing school of this hospital, and sent them to the Swiss Consulate in Shanghai, asking them to buy food and medicine and transfer them to the concentration camp. At this time, the distress telegrams sent by Heng Anshi and Dylan to the American and British embassies in China were also implemented. The American Red Cross raised a large number of food parcels and entrusted the Swiss consulate to hand them over. The Swiss Consulate General in Shanghai sent Iger as the representative in Shandong to work in the former American Consulate in Yishui Road, Qingdao. Li, a former translator of the American Consulate, is Iger's assistant, who is responsible for transporting the nutrients and medicines. From June 65438 to October 65438, 0945, they sent a large number of packages such as milk powder, canned pork, cheese, chocolate, sugar, coffee, jam, fish and raisins to concentration camps, which, to a certain extent, reversed the hunger and cold situation of refugees and saved the lives of some old, weak, sick and disabled people. Due to effective self-help and foreign aid, only 16 refugees died in concentration camps during three and a half years of hard detention. In the late World War II, the Japanese army was losing ground on the battlefield. Although they tightly blocked the news, the refugees captured some exciting information through underground channels. They also learned about the progress of the war through an English newspaper publicly posted by the Japanese army. For example, the Japanese army constantly shows off its specific achievements in newspapers. From Djibouti, Marshall Islands, Philippine Islands, Ryukyu Islands to Ryukyu Islands, the war zone is getting closer and closer to Japan, which shows that the Japanese army is losing ground. 1945 one night in early may, someone suddenly rang the giant clock on the top of the teaching building and woke up the sleeping refugees. They used to wear good clothes, run fast, and inexplicably gather on the playground. The Japanese guard flew into a rage and repeatedly asked who was ringing the doorbell. After a long struggle in the middle of the night, everyone finally understood that they were tracking down the man who rang the bell to tell the news of the victory over German fascism. That night, the refugees were too excited to sleep, and their confidence in winning was doubled. However, experienced old people have also added a lot of worries, fearing that the Japanese army slaughtered refugees at the last minute of defeat, and also worried that the anti-Japanese guerrillas fought fiercely with the Japanese army when they seized the concentration camp, causing a large number of casualties among refugees. The refugee autonomous management Committee is working in secret, on the one hand, to stabilize the people's hearts, on the other hand, to step up preparations for victory. They even instructed the brass band of the Christian Salvation Army to secretly rehearse, and the national anthems of the United States, Britain and the Soviet Union were mixed with excerpts from church hymns. In August 1945, 1 1, Zhang Xingtai and other cleaners repeatedly slapped dust next to a dustbin with a lid, which was a signal to the refugees to report Japan's surrender, and the refugees were skeptical. The next day, in a secret letter written by Heng Anshi and Dylan to the Refugee Autonomous Management Committee, they informed/kloc-0 of the accurate news of Japan's begging and surrender in August, and discussed how to help solve the food supply problem of refugees. On Friday, August 1945, the weather was particularly sultry, but the believers still prayed in the cathedral. At 9 o'clock in the morning, a B24 plane sent by the US military aid headquarters to China arrived over the concentration camp, lowered its altitude and kept circling. When the refugees saw the sign on the plane, they immediately boiled up and jumped and shouted together. Seven heavily armed American soldiers parachuted on the plane. They are duck paratroopers on rescue and liaison missions. Their names and titles are as follows: Captain Major Steiger, Japanese translator Sergeant Nagasaki, naval strategist Moore, radio operator aulick, Chinese translator Wang's adjutant, navigator Hanna, and military doctor Han Churak. Duck paratroopers gathered in corn fields and sorghum fields and immediately rushed to the concentration camp. The refugees also rushed to the gate crazily, and the stunned Japanese guards could not stop this surging torrent. The young man who ran in front cheered, raised the paratroopers and returned to the concentration camp. The Salvation Army brass band hastily played Happy Day Today and Song of the Stars and Stripes, which mixed excerpts from the national anthems of China, the United States, Britain and the Soviet Union. People hugged each other, cheered, and some even cried, intoxicated with ecstasy ... After Major Staiger sent a signal to the hovering plane, a lot of much-needed radio, medicine, food and other materials were thrown over the plane. After that, it continued to be airdropped for many days, and a large number of food, clothing, canned goods, medicines, compressed biscuits, and even razors, soaps, cigarettes, matches, toothpaste, toothbrushes, etc. were shipped out in large quantities and piled up like mountains. After the duck paratroopers arrived, they submitted a document signed by General Wedemayer, commander-in-chief of the US military in China, and then asked them to continue to be responsible for the security of the camp, prevent bandits and skirmishers from invading and handle daily administrative affairs. Japan was forced to agree to implement these measures. 1On August 20, 1945, the US military headquarters in China appointed Colonel Bird to lead a 20-member eagle team to land at Erlibao Airport in wei county on a C-47 plane, went to the concentration camp to help the duck team work until August 28, 1945, and then returned to Chongqing.

On August 30th, members of the 1945 and 19 SOS detachments headed by Lieutenant Colonel Wanberg took the opportunity to come to the concentration camp and formally took over the Japanese Allied Expatriate Concentration Camp in Weifang on behalf of the American garrison in China. After the war, the roads were riddled with holes and impassable, and the railway in Ji Jiao was paralyzed, so the evacuation of refugees in concentration camps could only be carried out by air. At first, it was a test flight with a B-24 bomber, but the runway of the airport was crushed and a small plane had to be used. But this kind of plane can only transport dozens of people at a time, and its efficiency is very low. The refugees were arranged alphabetically by English surnames and transported to Qingdao in turn, and all the refugees were transported until the end of 10. They went to Qingdao Donghai Hotel to apply for passports, and then went to Hong Kong by American warships in batches. Through Hong Kong, they went to the United States, Britain, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa, and returned to their long-lost motherland or immigrant settlement.