Defense of Sihang Warehouse Part 6: After the Battle
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This is the finalvideo of a series on the Defense of Sihang Warehouse, an event that occurred in 1937 Shanghai, during the early days of the Second Sino-Japanese War, or WW2 in China. For most, the story of the Defense of Sihang Warehouse ends with the soldier's retreat into the Shanghai International Settlement. Very few people know of the details about what happened after the soldiers retreated from the warehouse. Part 6 looks at the events that occurred after the Chinese troops' retreat into the International Settlement. Trapped in the International Settlement for 4 years, this video will briefly talk about what the soldiers experienced during this time and will also discuss what happened to many of those who were involved in the battle.
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A great conclusion to this very interesting subject. Actually found the end quite moving, noting the fate of many of the people involved. Glad that the girl scout, Yang Huimin, survived into old age. Japanese prisoner of war camps can't have been easy for the soldiers, surprised that so many escaped. Didn't the White Russians, or at least some of them, end up joining the Japanese in their fight against the Soviets? Really enjoyed this series, very educational and done with professionalism and passion.
Thanks! The fate of the people involved in the battle varied greatly and for many, it was a sad ending unfortunately. Some of the White Russians did join the Japanese and helped them in their war effort but a lot of them unfortunately suffered a bad end as well. I guess there’s truth in the saying that nobody wins in a war. I’m glad you enjoyed the series! I definitely had a great time making it!
Thank you very much
Thanks for watching!
Great series, and I liked how you concluded it with a synopsis of what happened to the major players. Keep up the great content!
Glad you liked it! I’ll definitely try my best to create similar content! Thanks for watching!
Very impressive job of research! Well done and well done!
Thanks again! Glad you enjoyed the video
Thank you, I very much enjoyed this series.
Thanks for watching! I’m glad you enjoyed them!
Quality content 👍
Thanks! Glad you enjoyed the video!
Great episode again! Very well researched
Another cracking video, and even though I've watched all your videos on this subject and read a book on shanghai, its still very confusing, but in a good way!....historical intrigue excellent. Your videos are always so well researched and presented m8, all the best and well done sir!!!!....cheers 👏
Thanks Stan! I’m really glad you enjoyed it! This series took quite a while to make but it was definitely an enjoyable process for me! It can definitely get quite confusing due to the many factors involved during the Battle of Shanghai such as the many foreign governments, geography, etc. Please let me know if there’s anything I can help clarify! I’ll try my best but no promises that I’ll do a good job explaining it haha. Cheers!
@@resistanceremembered cheers and thanks for replying, to be honest I think to get more clarity I need to read another book on the subject, if I have one question it would be that ww2 brought effectively brought about the end of Shangai as it had been with an 'international settlement '...and most of the Europeans left over several years?
@@steelhelmetstan7305 While WW2, didn’t bring an end to the city of Shanghai, it certainly ended the International Settlement. When Great Britain and the US entered the war in 1941, Japan was able to take control of the settlement. In 1943, Great Britain and the US decided to sign treaties with the Chinese government in Chongqing (Chungking) which essentially returned not only the international settlement, but all their concessions in China back to Chinese control. Of course, this would be after the end of the war. However, even many foreigners stayed in the city, the only thing that was different was that they were now subject to Chinese laws. The Civil War would force some of the foreigners that remained in Shanghai out of the city although even today, Shanghai still retains a large expat population. Fun fact, I believe the Boy Scouts of America still has a troop operating in Shanghai although you must be a foreigner to join their troop haha! So essentially, WW2 greatly changed Shanghai in the sense that it returned it to Chinese control. While many of the foreigners had left after the war, it wouldn’t be until the civil war that caused most of them to leave, although there were still some who stayed (including Cornell Franklin, the former chairman of the Shanghai Municipal Council, who stayed in Shanghai until the 1950s). Hope this helped!
@@resistanceremembered cheers wow top info, you certainly know your stuff!. Interesting about the American boy scouts. I've also read that shanghai is much changed as in architecture, especially the in the last 25 years 🙂🙂🙂
@@steelhelmetstan7305 Definitely! It’s seen tremendous growth within the last few decades, as did the rest of China haha! Shanghai has grown to the point that it is now the third largest city in the world in terms of population! In parts of old Shanghai though, you can still see some of the older European style buildings which is really cool.
Great job on the research you did. Impressive!
Thanks! I’m glad you enjoyed the video!
@@resistanceremembered What do you think about the movie "The Eight Hundred"? After watching your series i have spotted numeral inaccuracies in the movie, especially regarding the death toll.
@@rumpy3025Yeah, I feel like they did exaggerate some of the battles and got a few of the events wrong. I think there’s room for improvement in the props as well, an issue which a lot of people tend to overlook. In my opinion, the soldiers appeared too “German” in terms of equipment. In reality, German items like the bread bags and gas masks were never really used (at least not in any large numbers) by Chinese soldiers. They had their own version of these items, a haversack that was a cross between a German and Japanese one, a gas mask based off a German civilian model, etc. The only actual German military item that most soldiers received would have been the m35 helmet, which by that point in the battle, not all soldiers would have had either. With all that being said though, I still like the movie quite a lot as it gets people interested in the conflict. Even though things like equipment may be inaccurate, you can tell they at least put some effort into it. There were also parts where you can tell they paid close attention to detail as well. So yeah, there’s definitely room for improvement but it’s still a good movie overall in my opinion.
Great video as always bro! I loved the ending where you showed what happened to those men after.
On an unrelated note, have you read about the boxers who represented China in the 1936 Olympics? I tried to follow their bio on Wiki. It seem like all of them were military guys but some died fighting in the war after. This one guy was really brave and tried to charge at a tank but died I believe.
Thanks! I’m really glad you liked it! Never heard about that story. Sounds really interesting though! I’ll try to look into it in the future.
@@resistancerememberedand did you know about the suicide volunteer and penal battalion of Chinese the suicide volunteer (I forgot what name) it's start in Chinese revolt 1912 were a soldier volunteer to be a suicide bomber until Chinese civil war. The suicide bombers volunteer to destroy a tank or armored cars.
thanks for the detailed research, actually do we have a set of numbers on the rough causalities of the battle?
Glad you enjoyed the video! From what I’ve seen, estimates put the number of casualties around 60. This includes both wounded and killed and is based off the number of men who participated in the battle vs those who initially entered the camp. However, this is a very rough estimate. The number of those who were killed is likely lower than this number.
I’m wondering if you can do a video on the movie The Eight Hundred which is about the battle of Sihang warehouse. I think you should talk about the inaccuracies and accuracies with the film along with your likes and dislikes
Thanks for the recommendation! I hope you enjoyed the video. I’ll definitely keep your recommendation in mind. I actually talked a bit about the inaccuracies in the comments section of the videos from this series. If your curious, I recommend going through some of the comments. Also, if you have specific questions, feel free to ask and I’ll try my best to answer them. Thanks for watching!
nicely done
Thanks for watching! Glad you enjoyed it!
@@resistanceremembered thanks for the shout out....
@@wargamingchina9174 Sorry about that. I try to make shoutouts related to the content in the video and I already included you in the script for a future video haha. I’m adding the finishing touches on the script for a video on the Chinese Armoured Regiment where I briefly mention the Renault FTs that were imported earlier. I planned to give you a shoutout there and provide a link to your Young Marshal’s Army video. Really sorry about that
@@resistanceremembered ok sounds good
@@resistanceremembered I hope you do a better job of it than Mr Feltham, if you have any queries let me know
Really interesting video as China is often overlooked when people talk about ww2
Thanks for watching! You’re definitely correct. It’s quite unfortunate since China played a major role in the war. Hopefully, this will change in the future and more people will learn about this area of history!
I really have many questions and the last one(or not) did suicide charge happened in Shanghai warehouse Chinese soldiers strap a grenades and jump to Japanese.
This is likely one of the mysteries of the battle that would be quite hard to answer. If something like this did happen, it seems weird for Major Yang Ruifu to not mention it in his memoirs, which is arguably the best and most accurate summary of the events. However, in their later years, a few other veterans would make mention of a single person jumping during the battle (not the large group which was portrayed in the movie), although the sources don’t agree on his name, or reason. I’ve heard of reasons ranging from the fact that he felt he was too injured, being desperate, etc. However, I believe the reason given in the movie is completely wrong. If the Japanese actually wanted to use steel shields to stop bullets, the thickness of the shields would have to be insanely thick to stop the 8mm rounds used by the Chinese, making them too heavy and cumbersome to be of much use on the battlefield. Even if they had the shields, the shock from a grenade exploding on top of the shields would have been enough to injure if not kill the soldiers hiding underneath, even if no shrapnel managed to make it through. But it’s hard to completely disregard the fact that a few veterans mentioned such an event, even if Yang Ruifu didn’t include it in his memoirs. So in my personal opinion, a person MAY have jumped during the battle, but for reasons which are not 100% clear. As such, I initially decided to omit this from my video although maybe it would have been a better to have mentioned it haha. But what I can say for certain is that the movie’s depiction of this event is far from accurate. Thanks again for watching!
Makes me sick what the council did to the heroes of Shanghai.
Chen Shusheng exist?
It’s hard to provide an exact answer for this question. Major Yang’s account of the events, which was written soon after the battle, made no mention of any soldiers who jumped off the warehouse. This enough to raise doubts about there being a jumper in the first place as the Major’s memoirs are regarded as the most accurate. Many years later, during interviews, different veterans would provide different names for the jumper and differing reasons for why he jumped. What I can say for certain is that the commonly accepted reason likely isn’t realistic. Even if the Japanese had indeed used metal “shields”, it wouldn’t have been able to stop bullets. Even the concussive force from a grenade going off on top of the shields would have been enough to seriously injure or kill anyone underneath so in my opinion, there was no need for a soldier to jump with the grenades. Thanks for watching!
@@resistanceremembered Thanks ❤❤