美国人对南京大屠杀的见证与传播论略

The Americans' Spreading of Witnessing of the History of Nanjing Massacre

南京大屠杀期间,有21位美国人留在南京,亲历了侵华日军南京大屠杀,见证了日军暴行,留下了大量的日记、书信等多种形式的真实记录。这些对南京大屠杀历史的记录、见证和传播具有多维性、个体性、完整性和客观性等特点,已然构成判定日军南京大屠杀的重要铁证之一,也为我们深入推进南京大屠杀史学研究提供了难能可贵的第一手的可靠资料。

During the period of the Nanjing Massacre, 21 Americans stayed in Nanjing, experienced personally the Nanjing Massacre, witnessed the atrocities committed by the Japanese army, left a lot of diar ies, letters and so on diversified forms of real records. These recording, witnessing and spreading of the history of the Nanjing Massacre have the characteristics of multidimensional, individual, complete and objective characteristics, which not only have already formed important evidence to determine the Nanjing Massacre, but also provides refractory precious first-hand and reliable information to further promote today＇s historiography on the Nanjing Massacre for us.