Later generations know that Duan Kewen is the only war criminal who immigrated to the United States as a political refugee after being granted amnesty, and published a book called "Duan Kewen's Self-Statement", which is famous for scolding the Communist Party. Little is known about him, and all kinds of published materials are limited to this "self-report" that has been criticized by people from all walks of life. The basic information found by the author is:
Duan Kewen, born in 1904, died in 1991. He used to be a lieutenant assistant in the Political Training Office of the Supplementary Regiment of the 42nd Division of Yang Hucheng's Division, and the deputy commander of the 2nd Guerrilla Column in Northern Jiangsu in the Lusu Theater. During the Liberation War, he served as the county magistrate of Yitong County, Jilin Province, the commissioner of the Major General of the Military Unification Bureau, the picket captain of the Unified Reception Committee of the Nine Northeast Provinces, and the chief secretary of the Major General of the Supervision Department of the Northeast Security Command. At the end of 1948, he was captured by the People's Liberation Army during the Battle of Changchun. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, he was imprisoned and reformed, and after being pardoned in March 1975, he applied to go to Taiwan, but was rejected by the Taiwan authorities, and later settled in the United States as a political refugee. In 1978, a book called "Self-Statements of War Criminals" was published.
Some of the information about him, from the biographies of others, there is still a little shadow. In the reminiscence article about Liang Huasheng, the chairman of Jilin Province at the time, cronyism and money were used to appoint the positions of county magistrates to his cronies, or **, or as a transaction, to the receiving officials who went to the Northeast at that time. Duan Kewen should have belonged to the latter group, because he was the special agent in charge of supervising the acceptance of the military commander at that time. The people of Jilin said, "When the Kuomintang receives Jilin, the sky in Jilin will be three feet higher (because the land has been looted and taken away three feet)." "I'm afraid there are also many "credits" of this Duan county magistrate, you know, Yitong County, is a good place.
There are not many words about Duan Kewen's performance in the war criminals management center, I am afraid it will not be too good, one is that he is the last batch to be amnestied, whether he is on the list of thirteen recommendations that will never be amnestied, I don't know, but there is a great possibility that he is there. Second, together with Zhou Yanghao, a diehard who was a spy of the military command, they all scolded him for being "not a thing" and that he had always been reactionary, and he probably was not a good bird. Third, he was the only war criminal who wrote an article scolding the Communist Party after he was released from prison.
As for why he distorted historical facts and wrote the book "Duan Kewen's Self-Statement", when Shen Zui went to Hong Kong to visit relatives in 1980, his second daughter Shen Xiaoxiong hurriedly returned to Hong Kong from the United States via Taiwan Province, and when she saw her father, she gave her father a large check.
Shen Zui clearly told Shen Xiaoxiong that the Taiwan authorities could buy Duan Kewen, but they could not buy Shen Zui, who had looked down on Duan Kewen since the old society. And said to her: "You are an American, but you are from the island of Taiwan, I don't know whose money it is?" From this point of view, Duan Kewen really has not changed his old habits and has become a lackey of the Kuomintang authorities in Taiwan. History