The Nanking – or Nanjing – massacre occurred when Japanese troops occupied the city of Nanking in 1937, during the Second Sino-Japanese War. Hundreds of thousands of Chinese civilians and disarmed soldiers were murdered and raped by the Japanese. Read the full story here.
head of a Chinese man, beheaded by Japanese, is wedged in a barricade near Nanking, during the Nanking massacre
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Chinese man to be beheaded in Nanking Massacre
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A Chinese POW about to be beheaded by a Japanese officer with a shin gunto during the Nanking Massacre
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Chinese to be buried alive by Japanese soldiers during Nanking Massacre
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The sheer volume of murdered civilians posed a formidable logistical challenge when it came to disposing of the bodies. Many Chinese were conscripted into burial teams
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There’s also this particularly gruesome one, but I couldn’t verify its authenticity:
beheading of chinese woman
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More iconic images here.
I have another iconic image of Nanking Massacre on my blog – scroll down to the middle of my post at http://otrazhenie.wordpress.com/2012/07/22/the-rape-of-lucrece/ . I find it painful even to look at these pictures. Undortunately humans can be so unbelievably cruel to other humans. As Steven Spielberg once said, “Humans are the only hunters who kill when not hungry.” (from http://otrazhenie.wordpress.com/2012/07/15/humans-are/ ) :-(
Thanks.
It is astounding that the Japanese soldiers took a lot of pride in their actions in Nanking. The greatest abomination to follow is that the massacre is widely denied in Japan by many people as anti-Japanese propaganda.
It is important that no tragedy is forgotten.
Thank you for sharing these pictures.
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