Since the Nazi farce staged by the students of Kuang-Fu High School in Hsinchu, suddenly a crowd of people (mostly Hong Kong independence and Taiwan independence advocates) have attempted to draw a connection between Nazi Germany and the Republic of China, intending to smear and discredit their own country.
We specifically researched the historical truth of that period and learned that not everyone possesses noble sentiments; some people have utterly despicable and embarrassing characters. We also discovered how noble the sentiment of the Republic of China was in that turbulent era (for example, sheltering Jewish refugees persecuted by the Nazis).
I do not deny that on the vast land of China—a land stumbling and falling in the midst of war, constantly invaded by Japan—among its hundreds of millions of people, some opportunistic individuals took advantage. In the past, we called such people Japanese collaborators, Imperial Subjects, or Chinese traitors (I mean, even today we have people like Wang Jin-pyng and Ker Chien-ming).
However, when we, standing after the flood of history, view these events, if we fail to observe that society with the spirit of reflection and learning from the great era, but instead arrogantly judge the past by present standards, or even fabricate imagined false histories (for example, someone falsely claiming Chiang Kai-shek received a lot of help from Nazi Germany), it will only narrow our own perspective and cause others to look down upon those who will stop at nothing for their personal gain.
Frankly speaking, these people would certainly have been the highly cooperative Japanese collaborators, Imperial Subjects, or Chinese traitors of that time. During the Japanese Occupation Era in Taiwan, they would have also flourished, a stark contrast to the genuinely hardworking Taiwanese people.