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A Communist paper in Hunan province reported: "An everyday scene in the Hunan countryside is the sight of peasant militiamen, armed with spears and rifles, taking landowners to the execution grounds." A Canton paper rounded up the toll by hsien, or counties: "Fifty counterrevolutionaries executed in the last three days...
At the Nürnberg trials in January 1946, SS General and longtime Nazi Party Member Erich von dem Bach-Zelewski gave damaging testimony about his former bosses' plans to exterminate 30 million Slavs. Listening in the defendants' box, Hermann Göring was incensed. "Dirty dog! Damned...
As the Communists swept over the China mainland in 1949, Mao Tse-tung's regime promised moderation, tolerance and forgiveness. Last week tolerance was lost in the mounting clamor of a great Red terror. Mao Tse-tung's regime announced the execution of 120 "counterrevolutionaries" at Canton, 56...
China's Red press described the liquidation of one "batch," numbering several hundred. Tien Feng had wrecked locomotive boilers in Peking's railroad shop. Li Chih-hsiang had ruined wind gauges, wind pumps and water pumps. Tung Hua-chang had inspired workers to slow down. Chin Han-kui...
"Thousands of citizens went to the execution grounds to see the executions," reported the Reds' New China News Agency. "All were highly indignant, and cursed these counter-revolutionaries." Peking's People's Daily added that the crowds "gritted their teeth in hatred . . . Cheers and applause were heard...