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20:52, July 06, 2007 |
Standing before a stele on which hundreds of names are engraved to commemorate the victims of Japan''s germ warfare, Aaron De Groot was looking for traces of the atrocities committed on the Chinese people during World War II.
Groot was a member of a U.S. delegation of 17 high-school history teachers mainly from California and New Jersey which paid a visit to Japanese germ warfare sites on Thursday in Congshan Village of Yiwu, a city in east China''s Zhejiang Province.
"Though I know little about Japanese germ warfare in China, I share the same feelings as you," Groot, who has been teaching history for 24 years, said to Wang Jindi, a 73-year-old villager whose uncle and two brothers died after having been purposefully infected with the plague.
"One of my extended family members was killed by the Nazis in the Second World War. That is why I am here. I feel I have a special connection with those who suffered a lot at the time," Groot said.
Back to 1942, the Japanese troops dropped germ bombs in Yiwu, killing more than 1,200 people, including 404 in Congshan Village.
"It hurt so much. I cannot forget the looks on their faces before they died," said Wang in tears.
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