Iva Toguri (Tokyo Rose) and
Lily Abegg (German newspaper reporter and author) - Photo taken by a family
member at while stationed at Yokohama Prison, circa 1946. Click
image for larger version of original photograph w/caption on reverse.
I would venture a theory that she was interviewing Tokyo Rose.
Iva Toguri D'Aquino - born
Ikuko Toguri, July 4, 1916, Los Angeles, California - died September
26, 2006, Chicago, Illinois.
I have since found out that
Lily Abegg may have defended Iva Toguri... she was found innocent of the
charges... President Gerald Ford pardoned her... way too late! She lived
with the stigma of being a "traitor" for the rest of her life!
[Rule breaking
and disorders had already been dominant everywhere. Although a train carrying
2,000 soldiers wounded in Shanghai arrived at Nanking Station, no one
paid any attention to them. No medic was attending them. Having been left
for 2 days, they were dropped off with the dead and they were together
placed in a row at the platform of the station. The air being polluted
by the corps, it smelt badly.] (Frankfurter Zeitung, Dec. 19, 1937)*
SHANGHAI,Dec.1,1937
[In the Nanking castle, a countless number of people were accused to be
Japanese sympathizers, and were executed by shooting. Everywhere their
heads were exposed on the telephone poles or on the street corners. And
many poor people died of starvation.](Yomiuri Shanghai, Dec.1,1937)*
NANKING,
Wednesday, Dec. 8. by F. Tillman Durdin [The Nanking defense commander,
Tang Sheng-chih, proclaimed the city within the zone of hostilities and
decreed that all noncombatants must concentrate in the internationally
supervised safety zone. The movement of noncombatants elsewhere in the
city will be banned, except for persons holding special permits to be
indicated by a symbol specially stamped on yellow arm bands. ] (New York
Times, Dec. 8, 1937)
SHANGHAI,Dec.8,1937
[On Dec. 8, the Nanking Defense Army authorities officially issued the
evacuation order. When the International Committee for the Nanking Safety
Zone put up a marker of the safety zone, a crowd of refugees rushed into
the zone. .....The Chinese press reported, "Tang Sheng-chih, the
Nanking defense commander, has tightened the security of the Nanking city
further since the morning of Dec.7, being afraid that citizens would become
riots, and more than one hundred people who seemed dubious have already
been killed by shooting haphazardly."] (Tokyo Nichi-Nichi Shinbun,
Dec.8. 1937)*
Since Dec.8,
the NDA soldiers, who were wounded in the battle at the Nanking defense
line, had been forbidden to enter the Nanking castle by the NDA authorities.
So, quite a few of them would have died around the castle.
Dec.9,1937
[The Chinese soldiers who were wounded at the battle fronts outside the
Nanking castle were rushing into the castle for the past several days.
Since Dec.8, Tang Sheng-chih, the Nanking defense commander, had completely
forbidden these remnants of the defeated armies to enter the castle, though
they were clinging to the castle gates.](Tokyo Asahi Shinbun, Dec.10,1937)*
Thus, we
can conclude that many Chinese soldiers and citizens had already been
dead within and outside the Nanking castle before the castle fell.
Note) *:
Translated from Japanese documents, or re-translated from foreign documents
translated in Jamanese, by us.
------ By
Kita-no-Ookami, Shimanagashi, and TfromJ. Thank you."
