Nanjing Massacre

[Ravishing_Rick]

The Nanjing Massacre or the Rape of Nanjing, alternately written as the Nanking Massacre or the Rape of Nanking, was an episode of mass murder and mass rape committed by Imperial Japanese troops against the residents of Nanjing (Nanking), then the capital of China, during the Second Sino-Japanese War.

The massacre occurred over a period of six weeks starting on December 13, 1937, the day that the Japanese captured Nanjing. During this period, soldiers of the Imperial Japanese Army murdered Chinese civilians and disarmed combatants who numbered an estimated 40,000 to over 300,000, and perpetrated widespread rape and looting

Since most Japanese military records on the killings were kept secret or destroyed shortly after the surrender of Japan in 1945, historians have been unable to accurately estimate the death toll of the massacre. The International Military Tribunal for the Far East in Tokyo estimated in 1946 that over 200,000 Chinese were killed in the incident.China's official estimate is more than 300,000 dead based on the evaluation of the Nanjing War Crimes Tribunal in 1947. The death toll has been contested by scholars since the 1980s.


Massacre contest

In 1937, the Osaka Mainichi Shimbun and its sister newspaper, the Tokyo Nichi Nichi Shimbun, covered a contest between two Japanese officers, Toshiaki Mukai and Tsuyoshi Noda of the Japanese 16th Division. The two men were described as vying to be the first to kill 100 people with a sword before the capture of Nanjing. From Jurong to Tangshan (two cities in Jiangshu Province, China), Mukai had killed 89 people while Noda had killed 78 people. The contest continued because neither had killed 100 people. By the time they had arrived at Zijin Mountain, Noda had killed 105 people while Mukai had killed 106 people. Both officers supposedly surpassed their goal during the heat of battle, making it impossible to determine which officer had actually won the contest. Therefore, according to journalists Asami Kazuo and Suzuki Jiro, writing in the Tokyo Nichi Nichi Shimbun of December 13, they decided to begin another contest to kill 150 people. After the surrender of Japan in 1945, Mukai and Noda were both arrested and tried as war criminals, and both of them were found guilty and executed by shooting.


Rape

The International Military Tribunal for the Far East estimated that 20,000 women, including some children and the elderly, were raped during the occupation. A large number of rapes were done systematically by the Japanese soldiers as they went from door to door, searching for girls, with many women being captured and gang raped. The women were often killed immediately after being raped, often through explicit mutilation or by penetrating vaginas with bayonets, long sticks of bamboo, or other objects. Young children were not exempt from these atrocities and were cut open to allow Japanese soldiers to rape them











i cant show many pics

[SekkendSyklye]

for those who dont know, genocide has been happening all over the world for centuries

[Shepherd1125]

One of the main reason that alot of Chinese hate Japanese.

If you dig deeper, you will find the most disturbing images / videos you will ever see, torched babies, split open groins, mass live burials etc.

[Ravishing_Rick]

One of the main reason that alot of Chinese hate Japanese.

If you dig deeper, you will find the most disturbing images / videos you will ever see.

i see a few pics . some i wanted to post but cant

[ipunchurgirl]

This is what happens in war

[Shepherd1125]

i see a few pics . some i wanted to post but cant

Look up Unit 731, it's some next level disturbing ****, very haunting.

[Ravishing_Rick]

This is what happens in war

seem like you guys trying to excuse this

Look up Unit 731, it's some next level disturbing ****, very haunting.

been aware for years

[DrewDarden]

I have a book called The Rape of Nanking, written by Iris Chang, detailing all of this.

It’s in the top two most disturbing books I’ve ever read. Very difficult at times to get through. Like the worst horror movie you could imagine.

Raping women to death with swords, etc. Very hard to even imagine human beings treating other human beings this way.

[roko79]

Google Unit 731 brah. They did some evil **** to the Chinese.

[Ravishing_Rick]

I have a book called The Rape of Nanking, written by Iris Chang, detailing all of this.

It’s in the top two most disturbing books I’ve ever read. Very difficult at times to get through. Like the worst horror movie you could imagine.

Raping women to death with swords, etc. Very hard to even imagine human beings treating other human beings this way.

how long is the book
might check out

[DrewDarden]

how long is the book
might check out

200 pages with another 100 pages of notes.

[BootneckBrah]

Nanjing and unit 731 were just the tip of the iceberg.

The Japanese unleashed an almost unbelievable level of cruelty on their enemies.


Veterans of Burma, New Guinea and the Pacific campaign bore a srs grudge against Japan almost to a man.

My grandad would have nothing Japanese made in his house. My uncle Harry refused to even acknowledge my Japanese exchange teacher when I was a kid and she came to a large family gathering.


Pretty sad, but it’s important to remember that the Japanese at the time still believed their emperor was a Demi God, and the Samurai code was still deeply ingrained in their armed forces, death before dishonour and that all non Japanese were sub human.


POWs got such brutal treatment because the concept of surrender, even in the face of certain death, was completely alien to the the Imperial Army.


The fact that Japanese soldiers who were cut off from supply or besieged, would often volunteer their body parts cut off, or even their lives to be ended, to feed their starving comrades tells you all you need to know.

[poolshark472]

My grandfather hated the Japanese from the day he returned in 1945 until the day he died in 1987. He walked out of Platoon with my dad because the Vietnamese in the movie reminded him of them.

[swolefnatic]

There are some great films that depicts the Unit 731 and the Nanjing massacres called Men Behind the Sun and Black Sun. Very disturbing movies was very hard to watch but was educational nonetheless

[p100]

Japanese soldiers would put babies on their rifle bayonets and play catch. There are pics of this online.

One of the heroes helping Chinese in Nanking was a Nazi. He was in China before WWII until after the war and was unaware of the atrocities his own country was committing.

John Heinrich Detlef Rabe (23 November 1882 – 5 January 1950) was a German businessman and Nazi Party member who is best known for his efforts to stop the atrocities of the Japanese army during the Nanking occupation and his work to protect and help the Chinese civilians during the event. The Nanking Safety Zone, which he helped to establish, sheltered approximately 200,000 Chinese people from slaughter during the massacre. He officially represented Germany and acted as senior chief of the European–U.S. establishment that remained in Nanking (now Nanjing), the Chinese capital at the time, when the city fell to the Japanese troops.

[Gringo12]

strong comeback by Noda

[FlipBrah]

One of the main reason that alot of Chinese hate Japanese.

If you dig deeper, you will find the most disturbing images / videos you will ever see, torched babies, split open groins, mass live burials etc.

My best friends grandpa was there as a kid during that. He told him they had to hide in the sewers and remembered the screams. Chilling

[Ravishing_Rick]

The fact that Japanese soldiers who were cut off from supply or besieged, would often volunteer their body parts cut off, or even their lives to be ended, to feed their starving comrades tells you all you need to know.

wut?

[LeoThedude]

I've done a ton of reading/research on WW2, naturally since my Grandpa was a WW2 vet... The Japanese probably did some of the most psychotic and fukked up atrocities committed on that wide of a scale in all of history. Alot of it even made the Nazis look tame in comparison and they carried out the holocaust, let that sink in a moment.

[DrewDarden]

POWs got such brutal treatment because the concept of surrender, even in the face of certain death, was completely alien to the the Imperial Army.

Everything else you stated was very true, especially the parts about the samurai code and all of that. But this part rings a little hollow since the Chinese surrendered because they were told by the Japanese that if they surrendered, they wouldn't kill them. So surrender wasn't foreign enough that they didn't use it against the Chinese.

[Ravishing_Rick]

[DrewDarden]

One of the things I remember reading in The Rape of Nanking that still gives me chills to think about was how they would force the Chinese into freezing water up to a certain point so that their limbs would freeze. Then the soldiers would shoot their limbs so the person would have to see their frozen limbs blow off into ice pieces.

[WestAfrica]

Aware

[thenightskies]

The japanese had 'comfort women' it was a sex slave system in the military

look up japanese military sex slavery

[mexanacho]

Nanjing and unit 731 were just the tip of the iceberg.

The Japanese unleashed an almost unbelievable level of cruelty on their enemies.


Veterans of Burma, New Guinea and the Pacific campaign bore a srs grudge against Japan almost to a man.

My grandad would have nothing Japanese made in his house. My uncle Harry refused to even acknowledge my Japanese exchange teacher when I was a kid and she came to a large family gathering.


Pretty sad, but it’s important to remember that the Japanese at the time still believed their emperor was a Demi God, and the Samurai code was still deeply ingrained in their armed forces, death before dishonour and that all non Japanese were sub human.


POWs got such brutal treatment because the concept of surrender, even in the face of certain death, was completely alien to the the Imperial Army.


The fact that Japanese soldiers who were cut off from supply or besieged, would often volunteer their body parts cut off, or even their lives to be ended, to feed their starving comrades tells you all you need to know.

TBH this is pretty badass

[BootneckBrah]

Everything else you stated was very true, especially the parts about the samurai code and all of that. But this part rings a little hollow since the Chinese surrendered because they were told by the Japanese that if they surrendered, they wouldn't kill them. So surrender wasn't foreign enough that they didn't use it against the Chinese.

Not sure what you’re disagreeing with bro.

Maybe my wording was a little off, but yes they may have accepted surrender of their enemies, of course they did, otherwise every battle is going to be harder (if you know the enemy takes no prisoners, you fight to the death) much like even the Mongols accepted surrender (only if you accepted their offer at the start, if you raised a sword, or fired a single arrow, the deal was off. You win the battle or die)


But it was not accepted by Japan for her own soldiers to surrender. Therefore Allied and Chinese POWs got treated like chit, because to them, the shame of surrender and the code of Bushido, dictated death rather than capture.


And yes, I know everything else is true, because I’m a military history fanatic. And it is a knowledge base built on reading constantly, rather than YouTube or Wikipedia.

[poolshark472]

You probably don’t care lol. You’re just pretending. Anyways China today isn’t what they were in the past. They improved something Africans and South Americans can’t do.

They eat bats. STFU

[David275]

At that time, Japanese soldiers were given methamphetamine as part of their daily rations.

This doesn't change what happened but it does help to explain their behavior.

[3basic5me]

chinese aren't bankers so nobody really cares.

[keyboardworkout]

They earned this



and this