Very, very few photographs exist of the Nanjing Massacre, which makes a new find documenting the atrocities of 1937 all the more remarkable. But it’s today’s social media and an unusual content creator which have propelled our city’s history back into the limelight.
现存的南京大屠杀照片非常非常少，这使得记录 1937 年暴行的新发现更加引人注目。但今天的社交媒体和不寻常的内容创造者让我们城市的历史重新成为人们关注的焦点。
Yesterday, 1 September, saw a pawn-shop owner in St. Louis Park, Minnesota, USA, hit the headlines worldwide for his vlog in which he claimed to have found extremely rare photographs of the Nanjing Massacre.
昨天，9月1日，美国明尼苏达州圣路易斯公园的一位当铺老板因声称发现了极为罕见的南京大屠杀照片而登上了全球头条。
Evan Kail is owner of St. Louis Park Gold and Silver. On Monday of this week, he was asked by a client to have a look at a book with a view to selling it on their behalf.
埃文·凯尔是圣路易斯公园金银公司的所有者。本周一，一位客户要求他看一本书，并打算代为出售。
Kail didn’t get around to looking at the book for a while, since he runs across old books of photographs all the time. And when he did, he began flicking through and found it to be not particularly remarkable, other than the photos therein seemed to be have been shot by a US Navy serviceman stationed in China during WWII.
凯尔有一段时间没有抽出时间看这本书，因为他总是看到旧照片集。看完后，他开始翻阅，发现并没有什么特别了不起的地方，只是里面的照片似乎是二战期间驻华的美国海军军人拍摄的。
Then he turned a page, and as he says on his vlog, he screamed.
然后他翻了一页，正如他在视频博客中所说，他尖叫起来。
Kail would not show viewers any further photos from the book for fear of disturbing his audience. As he says, they are, “the most disturbing things I have seen in my career”. His vlog has already been watched 10 million times on TikTok.
凯尔不会向观众展示书中的任何更多照片，以免打扰观众。正如他所说，它们是“我职业生涯中见过的最令人不安的事情”。他的视频博客在 TikTok 上的观看次数已达 1000 万次。
But it is understood the book contains 30 photographs of atrocities taking place during the Nanjing Massacre. So far, two in particular have emerged. One accompanies this article.
但据了解，这本书包含 30 张南京大屠杀期间发生的暴行照片。到目前为止，已经出现了两个特别的例子。本文附有一篇。
The other depicts corpses lying in a street and is captioned, “Hell on Nanking Road”. But of course Nanjing doesn’t have a Nanjing Road, since that would be downright confusing. Likewise, Shanghai doesn’t have a Shanghai Road, but we do. This photo therefore is either taken in another city, where plenty atrocities were also taking place, or could be interpreted as “a road in Nanjing”.
另一幅描绘了街上躺着的尸体，标题是“南京路上的地狱”。但南京当然没有南京路，因为那会很混乱。同样，上海没有上海路，但我们有。因此，这张照片要么是在另一个城市拍摄的，那里也发生了很多暴行，要么可以解释为“南京的一条路”。
The Nanjing Massacre Memorial Hall (侵华日军南京大屠杀遇难同胞纪念馆) has responded to Kail’s reporting of the photos, saying they are in the process of verifying the claims, reports Jiangsu Broadcasting.
据江苏广播电视台报道，侵华日军南京大屠杀难同胞纪念馆已对凯尔有关照片的报道作出回应，称正在核实相关说法。
Karl closes out his video by saying, “You should know that there are still people who deny that the Nanjing Massacre occurred, and those people’s reason is there is no evidence. I found the evidence”.
卡尔在视频结束时说道：“你应该知道，仍然有人否认南京大屠杀的发生，他们的理由是没有证据。我找到了证据”。
