Rape Of Nanjing
John Hancock
Rape of Nanjing
In December of 1937, the Japanese Imperial Army marched into China's capital city of Nanjing and began to murder 300,000 out of 600,000 civilians and soldiers in the city. The six weeks of carnage would become known as the Rape of Nanjing and represented the single worst atrocity during the World War II era in either the European or Pacific theaters of war.
The actual military invasion of Nanjing was preceded by a tough battle at Shanghai that began in the summer of 1937. Chinese forces there put up surprisingly stiff resistance against the Japanese Army which had expected an easy victory in China. The Japanese had even bragged they would conquer all of China in just three months. The stubborn resistance by the Chinese troops upset that timetable, with the battle dragging on through the summer into late fall. This infuriated the Japanese and whetted their appetite for the revenge that was to follow at Nanjing.
After finally defeating the......
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