日軍戰犯藤田茂:實施細菌戰 讓士兵殺俘虜練膽

　　藤田茂（Fujita Shigeru） 圖片來自國家檔案局網站

　　人民網7月4日電 中央檔案館副館長李明華日前表示，將以“一天上網一個”的形式公布被判刑的45名日本戰犯筆供。今天，國家檔案局網站發布了第二名日本戰犯藤田茂的筆供。

　　這份筆供系藤田茂于1954年8月所錄。其1889年生于日本廣島縣，1938年8月到中國山西參加侵華戰爭并任陸軍騎兵第28聯隊大佐聯隊長。其后，于1945年3月任第43軍第59師團中將師團長，并于1945年8月在朝鮮咸興被俘。

　　根據筆供，藤田茂的重要罪行如下：

　　1938年8月，在山西河津逮捕住民6名，“訊問這些被逮捕的人民時使用拷問、毆打等方法手段且（將其）殺害”。

　　1938年11月，在山西運城東北40公里的三路李村，“搜索屠殺了多數三路李村住民”。

　　1939年1月中旬，在山西安邑縣張良村，“對軍官全體教育說‘為使兵習慣于戰場，殺人是快的方法，就是試膽。對此使用俘虜比較好’ �！�刺殺比槍殺有效果’”。4月，在夏縣，“我命令第1中隊長……讓部下的9名兵刺殺了俘虜”9名。8月15日，在山西澤州，“我讓把8名俘虜交給第1中隊，把9名交給第2中隊作為教育材料刺殺了”。

　　1944年3月—1945年4月，任騎兵第4旅團長期間，“瓦斯彈：使用74發（綠彈）”。

　　1944年4月10日， “我在歸德旅團司令部，召集各隊長，命令”“使用瓦斯彈的權限給予聯隊長，在此作戰期間，騎炮1門攜帶20發瓦斯彈，聯隊炮1門攜帶10發瓦斯彈”，“俘虜盡量在戰場殺害，算入‘戰果’”。

　　1944年5月2日，在河南許昌西南10公里的黃旗衛村，“刺殺俘虜4名”。

　　1944年5月21日，在河南洛陽，“擊斃中國人民12名（1名是婦女）”。

　　1944年10月26日，在河南太康附近，“拷問殺害中國人民6名”。12月16日，在黃河北左岸歸德北方地區，“拷問殺害中國人民11名”。

　　1945年3月27日，“在竹林橋北200米的鄧縣——老河口道上的約50戶村莊，把合住民，連老人、婦女、小孩，……屠殺了這些住民”。同日，“在馬屈山攻擊使用了瓦斯彈”。

　　1945年5月9日，在山東沂水西北25公里的石橋“殺害很多中國人民”，“放火，全部燒毀石橋村”。同月“作戰期間，使令防疫給水班使用霍亂菌，實施了細菌戰”。攻擊在豪山的八路軍時，“使用了瓦斯彈、瓦斯筒”�！盀榱祟A防遭受八路軍所埋設的地雷之害，則稱謂領路，使十幾名人民先行的事實是使令實地趟地雷了”。

　　1945年6月，“在濟南的虐殺俘虜”，“把使用于陣地構筑的濟南俘虜收容所600名以上的俘虜，在6月15日以后使用于教育刺殺了”。

　　“停戰后的處理。（1945年）8月17日召集各大隊長命令如左：1.銷毀各種文件（消滅日本帝國主義的罪行，尤其湮滅對共產黨彈壓的證據），2.埋沒特種彈（瓦斯彈、燒夷彈、發煙彈、曳火彈、及一部分信管），3.銷毀防毒面（具）……”。

　　筆供英文內容提要（Abstract of the Written Confessions in English）

　　Fujita Shigeru( 藤田茂 )

　　According to the written confession of Fujita Shigeru in August 1954, he was born in 1889 in Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan and went to Shanxi, China in August 1938 to join the Japanese War of Aggression against China, serving as colonel and commander of the 28th Cavalry Regiment. He took the position of lieutenant general and commander of the 59th Division of the 43rd Army in March 1945. He was captured in Hamhung, the Korean Peninsula in August 1945.

　　Major offences:

　　August 1938: arrested 6 local inhabitants in Hejin, Shanxi, “interrogated these arrested people through torture and beating, and killed them”;

　　November 1938: “searched for and killed most of the inhabitants of Sanluli Village” in Sanluli Village, 40 kilometers to the northeast of Yuncheng, Shanxi;

　　Mid-January 1939: in Zhangliang Village, Anyi County, Shanxi, “told all officers, ‘Killing people is a quick way to get soldiers accustomed to the battlefield, as it can test their courage. For this purpose, it is better to use the captives.’ ‘Bayoneting is more effective than shooting.’” In April, in Xiaxian County, “I ordered the commander of the First Squadron…to order 9 soldiers under his command to bayonet to death 9 captives.” On 15 August, in Zezhou, Shanxi, “I ordered the First Squadron and the Second Squadron to take 8 and 9 captives respectively as teaching materials and bayonet those captives to death”;

　　From March 1944 to April 1945: “used 74 gas shells (green colored shells)” while serving as commander of the 4th Cavalry Brigade;

　　10 April 1944: “I called all regiment commanders together at the Brigade Headquarters in Guide and ordered that” “regiment commanders could authorize the use of gas shells. During the battles, 20 gas shells are equipped for each cannon of the cavalry and 10 gas shells for each cannon of the regiment”, and “try to kill captives on the battlefield as far as possible and calculate them into ‘combat achievements’”;

　　2 May 1944: “bayoneted 4 captives” in Huangqiwei Village, 10 kilometers southwest to Xuchang, Henan;

　　21 May 1944: “shot dead 12 Chinese people (including 1 woman)” in Luoyang, Henan;

　　27 March 1945: “massacred all inhabitants of about 50 households in a village along the Dengxian County-Laohekou road, which is 200 meters to the north of Zhulinqiao, killing seniors, women, children… and other inhabitants”; “used gas shells during the attack in Maqushan” on the same day;

　　9 May 1945: “killed many Chinese people” in Shiqiao, 25 kilometers northwest to Yishui, Shandong, and “burned down the entire Shiqiao Village”; in the same month, “ordered the Epidemic Prevention and Water Supply Squad to use cholera virus to fight a germ war during the battles”; “gas shells and gas canisters were used” when attacking the Eighth Route Army in Haoshan; “to prevent soldiers from stepping on land mines placed by the Eighth Route Army, more than ten Chinese people were ordered to lead the way, i.e. to walk in the mine field in front of the troops”;

　　June 1945: “maltreated and killed captives in Jinan”, and “over 600 captives of the Jinan Internment Camp who had been forced to build battle positions were bayoneted to death in soldier training after 15 June”;

　　“Arrangements after announcement of armistice: I called all squad commanders together on 17 August (1945) and ordered them to do the following: first, to destroy all kinds of documents (to get rid of criminal records of the Japanese imperialism, especially the evidence of cracking down on the Communist Party of China); second, to bury special bombs (gas shells, incendiary ammunition, smoke projectiles, light tracers and some fuse tubes); third, to destroy gas masks … …”