On Gongdelin Road near Deshengmen in Beijing, there is a tourist attraction of great historical significance - the Beijing Gongdelin War Criminals Management Office.
As one of the oldest and most important war criminals management centers in China, Gongdelin has witnessed countless ups and downs in history.
Many war criminals who committed heinous crimes were imprisoned here.
However, one day in 1975, all the war criminals felt great joy. Because *** suddenly instructed *** to release them, let them go home, and even offer coils.
So, what's going on here?
After years of struggle, the Communist Party of China finally won a national victory. However, in the face of a large number of war criminals, how to deal with them has become a thorny problem.
Despite this, China** has always adhered to the principle of leniency and adopted a series of amnesty measures. Among them, the amnesty in 1975 was not the first, but the seventh and last since the founding of the People's Republic of China.
Despite repeated amnesties, China's attitude towards war criminals has always been the same. In this special period, New China is in the early stage of construction, and it is necessary to concentrate on developing the economy and building the country.
Therefore, China has adopted a tolerant and lenient approach to the handling of war criminals.
This not only reflects China's benevolent and humanitarian spirit, but also shows the determination and efforts of China to build a harmonious society and promote peaceful development since the founding of the People's Republic of China.
Faced with the problem of war criminals, the Chinese Communist Party, under the guidance of the Chinese Communist Party, decided to send all war criminals, regardless of the size of their crimes, to the war criminals management center for unified management and reform.
Among them, Gongdelin, as the largest war criminal management center, was born in this context. However, since there are no strict convictions for war criminals, the one-size-fits-all management policy is clearly not scientific.
In this context, the amnesty policy came into being.
In the past few decades, China** has granted amnesty to war criminals in war criminals management centers on several occasions, first releasing war criminals with less serious and good behavior, and then releasing war criminals with serious and poor performance, gradually realizing the clean-up of war criminals.
Among them, in 1959, the CCP decided to amnesty the first batch of war criminals, and released the Kuomintang war criminals led by Du Yuming, Song Xilian and others, as well as the puppet Manchukuo war criminals led by Aixinjue Luo Puyi, a total of 33 people.
After the amnesty, the war criminals in the War Criminals Management Center saw a new dawn, and they actively studied and worked hard to make progress in the prison, and deeply reflected on their crimes.
This positive change has also been recognized by the Chinese Communist Party, which believes that amnesty is very effective for the rehabilitation of prisoners.
In the three years of the year, three more amnesties were granted, releasing 50, 68 and 35 prisoners, respectively, for a total of 153 prisoners.
In '64 and '66, we granted two amnesties, releasing 53 and 57 respectively, bringing the total number of amnesties granted in the first six tranches to 293.
This figure is already close to half compared to the total number of war criminals. However, a decade of turmoil struck suddenly, and China was mired in a quagmire, making it difficult to spare energy to deal with the issue of amnesty for war criminals, and even the news of the amnesty being canceled was repeatedly reported within the party.
After a decade of turmoil, the war criminals in the war criminals management center have finally waited for the dawn of hope.
Nine years later, in 1975, the chairman decided to grant them an amnesty, and although it is impossible to understand why he did so, some clues can still be seen from his conversations with ***.
This amnesty was given to them by those whom they hated so much, and their lives were prolonged.
According to people familiar with the matter, there are some differences of opinion between the two sides when discussing the issue of amnesty for war criminals between *** and ***.
**There are reservations about amnesty for these criminals who have done evil, and he believes that these people may pose a certain risk on ***.
However, ** is positive about this, insisting that these old people have lost the ability to commit crimes. At this time, *** is 82 years old, and there is not much left of life.
When *** said this, he must have been extremely melancholy and emotional in his heart. As the first chairman of New China and the great leader of the Communist Party of China, he has gone through many glorious years, but his country has not yet become truly strong, the people have not yet lived a truly happy life, and he is about to face the loss of life.
Time is like a ruthless blade, which can cut everything, even the masters of the world, and the great men of thought are no exception. Perhaps it is precisely because of the ruthlessness of the years that the decision to amnesty war criminals will be made.
In 1975, the last batch of prisoners in the Chinese War Criminals Management Center were granted amnesty, and these people who were dying of old age were once high-spirited people of the times, but when they were released from prison, they felt lonely and helpless.
They received more preferential treatment than the previous batch of amnesty people, each of whom had 100 yuan for travel expenses, and held a party before the amnesty, and some were even assigned jobs, and the CCP did not ask where they went.
One day in 1975, the last group of Kuomintang war criminals walked out of the door of the war criminals management center. A total of 293 war criminals were released, marking the freedom of all war criminals in China.
War criminals administrations have been closed one after another throughout the country, fulfilling their historic mission.
Summary: After these seven batches of war criminals were released from prison, the CCP** took into account that they were all talents, did not make any requirements for their future, and arranged them in vacant positions across the country very humanely.
Many of them later became members of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) and made important contributions to the healthy development of China's democratic parties.
The release of prisoners of war is a question that often raises questions.
Why is the state doing this? It's not because they're pitiful. Not all war criminals were heinous, because those who committed the heinous crimes had already been executed or fled abroad with Chiang Kai-shek.
And most of those war criminals who were eventually released on parole made significant contributions in the War of Resistance Against Japan.
** It was clearly stated: "For all counter-revolutionaries, we should give them a way out of life and give them the opportunity to mend their ways."
Doing so is beneficial to our cause and international impact. ”