The Rape of Nanking – Nanjing Massacre
The Nanking Massacre, commonly known as the Rape of Nanking, was an infamous genocidal war crime committed by the Japanese military in Nanjing, then capital of the Republic of China, after it fell to the Imperial Japanese Army on December 13, 1937.
The duration of the massacre is not clearly defined, although the violence lasted well into the next six weeks, until early February 1938.
During the occupation of Nanjing, the Japanese army committed numerous atrocities, such as rape, looting, arson and the execution of prisoners of war and civilians.
Although the executions began under the pretext of eliminating Chinese soldiers disguised as civilians, it is claimed that a large number of innocent men were intentionally identified as enemy combatants and executed—or simply killed outright—as the massacre gathered momentum.
A large number of women and children were also killed, as rape and murder became more widespread. (Excerpt from Wikipedia)
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Shocking documentary about Japanese war crimes. It is a sad fact that Japan is up to this very day denying the terrible war crimes that were systematically committed (“Asian Holocaust”) by its armed forces and has not made any attempt to apologize/”compensate” to China, turning war criminals into heroes.
I hope that the victims, not just from China but all of Asia will one day be given the same attention as those of Hitler Germany.
9 out of 10 Stars
Regards,
Der Oberst
So many thoughts come to mind… How sad and pathetic the human race really is… Look around at this world we live in, at this very moment, tell me we have learned from the past… PLEASE SOMEONE! Show me how wrong I am… You can bet that people living in the moments of their lives in their day and age of eons past with its atrocities were thinking to themselves the very things that you have in your head right now this very second, “things like that just don’t/won’t/can’t happen in this day and age, its the 21st century after all…”
Don’t be fooled. It is happening, it will happen and for as long as there are humans on this planet strange planet of horro and beauty mixed in all over.
After watching this documentary as presented online here, think about this, isn’t it interesting how China has been making alot of noise over and around Japan with its missile tests of late… You can bet Nations (people in power that want more) of the world don’t easily forget the horrors that others have brought to their soil. Time always has a way to change things…
We humans read history books to learn from our mistakes but what we are really doing is living/making/writing them in realtime…
The future human will look back on us in disgust just as you did today…
Have a nice day, it’s not all doom and gloom. I know I will, you should too…
M.
History is written by the winners. What about attrocities made by chinese in tibet?
Bravery has nothing to do with who wins or looses. I think its fair to say that all who participated and are currently participating in wars (Infantry level) have no choice but to be Brave. For people who are sitting around watching docs about wars and not participating in them perhaps calling out others bravery its a little out of your league. Just a thought.
stop the complaining gibberish nonsense
about the Japanese
i commend them
i wish they had won the war
i also commend hitler
so heil hitler
and bansai!!!!
brad your a troll, your heroes failed, just as you are destined to fail. you’re a waste of resources, just head to the golden gate bridge and throw yourself off, and please please please, be a sucessfull death. the only thing your good for is fish food or fertilizer
I read a book about the massacre in Rwanda and if I have to guess as to why people behave so ruthless and continue to kill without any emotion is because their friends, comrades, and authority are giving them the O.K. to do so. Its sad to say but i think all those people are tools who do not care for anyone but themselves and their own well being (follow orders no matter how awful, after all you are “just following orders”)
People should stop and think for once a while. We are just a speck of dust in the universe, why still fight over ****** ideas and resources.
This is the worst documentary I have ever seen! crammed full of repetitive narration Like a broken record.
However the subject matter definitely needs more professional media coverage.
The only saving grace to these commissions of pure unadulterated satanic, evil, putrid acts is that those criminals seen in this film have themselves been jettisoned into the next dimension. For the sake of any known god that may be in existence at this time, we would be rest assured that the psychopathic killers are in the appropriate Hellish level of Dante’s Inferno.
stfu with dimensions, ***** on earth
Interesting. i just watched a Doc here “PSYCHOPATH”.
What Japan did is beyond words. It’s beyond war. All wars are terrible for civilians. Genocides are beyond wars.
And what’s as bad is the rest of the world stood there watching. And like usual the US government shows up when an interest shows up.
How could our government hide this from us ? How could our government use this genocide as leverage against Japan ? How is this possible ? How can our government do business with Japan ?
How did China stay so quiet for all these years ?
(these are all rhetorical questions).
The Nazis & the Jews are not even in the same league. i mean the Nazis couldn’t be that cruel even if they tried and the Jews couldn’t shut up and still today.
Governments from all around the world are completely sick. How can a minority stay and control the majority ? I think all governments should start walking gently on eggs.
Have you fellows ever heard about the Milgram Experiment, conducted by Philip Zimbardo?
It´s a very interesting study into how authority figures could transform the normal and common fellow. Not that it would answer for the war crimes all around the world, like the depleted uranium used by USA n´ friends as anti-tank piercing ammo, the japanese, the nazi… and the list goes on.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milgram_experiment
“The Milgram experiment on obedience to authority figures was a series of social psychology experiments conducted by Yale University psychologist Stanley Milgram, which measured the willingness of study participants to obey an authority figure who instructed them to perform acts that conflicted with their personal conscience. Milgram first described his research in 1963 in an article published in the Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology,[1] and later discussed his findings in greater depth in his 1974 book, Obedience to Authority: An Experimental View.[2]
The experiments began in July 1961, three months after the start of the trial of German Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann in Jerusalem. Milgram devised his psychological study to answer the question: “Was it that Eichmann and his accomplices in the Holocaust had mutual intent, in at least with regard to the goals of the Holocaust?” In other words, “Was there a mutual sense of morality among those involved?” Milgram’s testing suggested that it could have been that the millions of accomplices were merely following orders, despite violating their deepest moral beliefs.”
And the Jews complain? They certainly don’t hold the license on genocide like they think they do.
I’ve read about this before. I don’t understand how so many people in Nanking (and other parts of China) could have been slaughtered. With the size of China’s army (or potential
size) such a thing should have never happened. Where was the army?
I think I read somewhere, that the US ignored Japan’s crimes against humanity in exchange for their biological warfare information.
Now I don’t feel so bad that we nuked them. A couple hundred thousand innocent Japanese died, but it no doubt resulted in the saving of even more innocent Chinese and others.
“Learn from the past?” No country ever has. Genocide has occurred since WW 2 and is still occurring (Darfur) while the rest of the world looks away.
war sucks, make love not war! ape syet!
Makes the Nazi’s look like the tooth fairy. This can happen in America Be cautious!!
It is a shocking truth but one that is sadly going on even now with so called ‘modern warfare’ in the ‘modern world’ we live in. I blame mainly leaders and their followers. I find hope with my faith, Islam and know that God will judge us all and there is no escape from it. This world is a test and it will end one day, just like the universe and all that it contains will end.
I hope the people who watched this documentary teach others about tolerance, as Islam and Muslims are the ones singled out by the West now.
Very repetitive and very disturbing. The book by the same title is better, if you can stand the awful reality. Such atrocities are written between the lines of the Old Testament wars. These things, because of human nature being desperately wicked, as the prophet Jeremiah says, can happen anytime and anywhere.
Not a bad documentary…. no worse then the cr*p they sell at Walmart. The Japanese might be in denial but China is not. Too bad they didn’t drop another atomic bomb on the Imperial Palace in 1945 as well.
Thank God we now HAVE NUCLEAR WARHEADS. iT IS THE ONLY TERROR THAT IS GREATER THAN THEIRS!!!!I cannot believe that humans could behave like that but they do. It must stop!!!!!