潍县乐道院集中营被关押西方侨民信息再考证

A Textual Research on the Information of the Internees in WeiHsien Le Dao Yuan Concentration Camp

潍县乐道院集中营是二战时期日本在中国境内关押西方侨民时间最长,人数和国家最多的地方。其故事以学术论文、回忆录、纪录片等多种媒体形式予以报道。在此类报道文献中,一些重要的史料信息说法不一,甚至相互矛盾。通过搜集和整理大量文献,就被关押西方侨民的确切人数、国别和职业等史料信息进行再考证,以期还原历史的本来面目是一件有价值的事情。

WeiHsien Le Dao Yuan Concentration Camp is a place where the biggest number of foreign residents from up to 29 countries were interned for the longest period of time during the 2nd World War.The historical events which happened in the camp have been reported in several ways through academic essays,memoirs and documentaries.However,in those reports,some important historical data are not reliable and even contradict to each other.On the basis of collecting and sorting out substantial documents,the essay tries to give a textual research on the information of the internees in terms of their exact numbers,nationalities and professions,etc.