The Museum of the Ruins of the Huto Fortress of the Japanese Invading Forces in China, Witness to the End of World War II

Hulin City, Jixi City, Heilongjiang Province

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Introduction

The Tiger Head Fortress Memorial Museum is a museum dedicated to showcasing the crimes of the Japanese army in China and the battles of the end of World War II. From 1934 to 1939, the Japanese army forced hundreds of thousands of Chinese laborers to build the permanent military fortifications of the Tiger Head Fortress, with the aim of long-term occupation of China and attacking the Soviet Union. The massive scale of the Tiger Head Fortress included a front width of 12 kilometers and a depth of 30 kilometers, consisting of the Tiger East Mountain Front Line, the Tiger North Mountain Flank, the Fierce Tiger Mountain Main Line, the Tiger West Mountain and Tiger X Mountain Rearline. In addition, the Tiger Head Fortress was equipped with ground military airports, large artillery positions, and underground complex facilities and complete engineering works, and was therefore known as the "Eastern Maginot Line." After the Soviet Army invaded northeast China on August 8, 1945, and the Japanese army surrendered on August 15, the Japanese Kwantung Army 15th Border Guard continued to resist stubbornly at the Tiger Head Fortress, an important geographic location, until August 26, resulting in more than 2,000 soldiers and their families perishing at the Tiger Head Fortress. The Red Army of the Soviet Union also suffered heavy losses during the battle, so scholars referred to the Tiger Head Fortress as the "End of World War II."

Address

Hulin City, Jixi City, Heilongjiang Province

Opening hours

08:00-16:30 (all day)
last admission time: 16:00 (Monday-Sunday, January 1-December 31)

Phone 0467-5939877