The Rape Of Nanjing
All of these dead bodies was the result of this horrible tragedy.
- The Rape of Nanjing took place in 1937
- The Japanese occupied Nanjing, and created one of the greatest horrors of the century
- Many civilians were killed and massacred, leaving the foreigners to find them dead on the streets
- Many of the victims were bayoneted some had very cruel wounds
- The policemen and firemen were one special target of the Japanese
- Anyone who ran because of fear got slaughtered on the spot
- The Japanese entered almost every building and took whatever they wanted
- Not only killing took place, but the raping of women and children
- The horrors that went on in Nanjing was the most overwhelming defeat ever suffered by the Chinese
- Thousands of prisoners were shot in masses by the Japanese
- The Japanese did house-to-house searches to find any Chinese soldier or former soldier and killed them all
- The Chinese army tried to fight back, but their leaders fled, causing panic everywhere
- The Japanese wanted the horrors to remain as long as possible, to show the Chinese the terrible results of resisting Japan