Under the Gun of the Gestapo: Chinese Women

Author: Zhang Yawen
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Publish Date: 2003-01-01
Features: People will never forget that most cruel, widespread, and savage war that began in Europe in 1939 and lasted five years, eight months, and seven days, involving two billion people from sixty-one countries, causing one hundred million casualties and losses amounting to as much as US$5 trillion. Fifty-seven years have gone by, and the passing of over half a century has buried those incalculable events and memories of bygone days! However, an illustrious Chinese woman still dazzles like a bright pearl against the dust of history. She glows in the skies over Europe like a shimmering star that will never fall. From the day the Nazi German army marched into Brussels, the capital of Belgium, with the reckless ambition of conquering the whole of Europe, due to an extraordinary confluence of circumstances, a young Chinese woman studying in Belgium was drawn into that long-drawn-out war. Out of her noble spirit of humanity, she saved the lives of many resistance fighters from the gallows of the German fascists and even changed the destiny of a German general. That woman is Madame Qian Xiuling (renamed Jin Ling in this fictionalized account)—a great Chinese woman regarded as the "Mother of Belgium" by the Belgian people!