The other face of war

I was giddy last Saturday, after knowing that or cable Digital box has been installed. Immediately, I scanned for new channels and landed on HISTORY Channel. The documentary was about a man, who showed the Jews another side of the war. He was Chiune Sugiwara.

Chiune Sugiwara then was a Consul under the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. 1940s, is the time where the Nazis' were spreading terror to the Jews to show that they were the supreme race. An order was sent to the Central Government of Japan to eliminate the Jews in Japan. A Jew told Sugiwara that the Japanese may be the Nazi's ally. However, the Japanese will never be Germans, and the threat of being wiped out is possible.

Sugiwara wrote visas for the begging Jews and Polish day and night. From then, he saved thousands of them. He lost his lavish lifestyle as a government official and became a poor trader in Russia. After decades, a Jew he once saved finally met him. He asked Sugiwara a question he's been meaning to ask all those years. "Why did you issue those visas?"

The ex-minister felt confused and did not know the answer to the question. He said, " There's no need to think when you are doing the right thing."

It's amazing to here words as such, from a person who worked in the very government that initiated the war and a country who has a strong sense of obedience & ultranationalism.

I guess , there are really different sides of truth and Chiune Sugiwara chose the righteous truth and indeed thousands have been saved and living in the truth he chose.