<p>Check it out:</p>
<p><a href="http://www.xanga.com/NanjingMassacre%5B/url%5D">http://www.xanga.com/NanjingMassacre</a></p>
<p>It makes me sick that something like this has been gone from recognizition in the world, and it makes me even more sick the Japanese have yet to apologize for such an incident and even downplays it</p>
<p>Yeah, that's messed up. I don't understand how all my US history books talk so much about the deaths of six million jews, yet our teacher barely mentions 30 million dead chinese in the same war.... We also did have elective type class talking about gestapo, jews, and the holacaust, but how about all the chinese people that die?</p>
<p>This was just in the city of Nanjing</p>
<p>Although only 195,000 bodies have been accounted for. The other 100,000 estimate lies in the ashes of the bodies the Japanese set aflame. I speak openly when I say the Japanese soldiers were inhuman and cruel. Out of the 300,000 deaths, only 10,000 were POW`s and soldiers. The 290,000 other victims were civilians. 20,000 rapes were registered. Not only were men killed... boys, girls, babies, unborn fetuses, pregnant women, old men & women..... were also indiscriminantly singled out. Japanese commanders even announced to their troops that Chinese were not human beings and should not be treated as such. Killing people who cannot fight back.. where is the honor in that?</p>
<p>Everyone needs to check out the page</p>
<p>Theses are the atrocities that go unrecognized in history books across the world, this just sickens me that anyone would downplay such atrocities, and saddens me that some do not even know of it</p>
<p>If you can, read the Rape of Nanking (Iris Chang) and The Good Man of Nanking: The Diaries of John Rabe (John Woods, Erwin Wickert).</p>
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<p>In Nanking? Isn't the deathtoll like 200,000-400,000</p>
<p>Who took those pictures? Surely the Japanese wouldn't have allowed press into their concentration camps and they wouldn't take photographic evidence of their own war crimes.</p>
<p>Actually, they did as a manner of bragging to the Japanese media about their exploits in China. Most of the pictures were taken as souvenirs by the Japanese soldiers.</p>
<p>Ever heard of the Tutsis?</p>
<p>@Para</p>
<p>Broken, should Purest have blindly accepted whatever you linked as true? Calling someone ignorant for simply questioning the legitimacy of a picture is truly despicable.</p>
<p>there is a theory going on
is The Rape of NanJing the forgotten Holocaust?</p>
<p>@Nalcon.....No, but what he is implying is that all pictures of the atrocities are fake, which showed the atrocities that were commited. Again this comment downplays the severity of the Nanjing massacre. Its like saying that all those pictures of the Holocaust are fake. If I said something like that what would you assume I was impying. So it is ignorant to assume those pictures are fake.....Go google Nanjing Massacre, and you'lll see thousands of other photos, are those fake as well? Also, I'm calling him ignorant, because of the message he implies. Also if I posted a link to the holocaust, who'd someone question the legitamcy of the photos, so why would someone do the same with the Nanjing Massacre, and I stand with what I said earlier</p>
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<p>^^ agree....there is no honor in killing people.....</p>
<p>30 million dead chinese after Japan invades China for imperial benefits? I thought 30-40 million chinese died after Mao's "Great Leap Foward" and "Cultural Revolution" (due to famine, murder, etc.).</p>
<p>I thought that figure was a littlebit overblown as well; the deaths of the Chinese in that war was around 15-20 million (only from Japanese forces-the Revolution is another matter). During the Great Leap Forward around 40 million died in famine, and 5-10 were killed in the purges of the Cultural Revolution.</p>
<p>@QuizQuick....I'm not implying that at all, I'm just saying that that one of the Japanese Imperial Army's goal was honor, and this is what they considered honor, how sad..</p>
<p>@Surge....What are you trying to get at</p>
<p>@BrokenDreams... get at? I'm not trying to get anything... i want to clear up a statistical fallacy (for myself and the AP test). I only pointed that out because my AP World class went over the Japanese imperial policies and invasion of Manchuria very briefly, and I didn't think the casualty count was that large.</p>
<p>In any matter, i agree, what happened at Nanjing was one of the most shameful and disgusting acts in human history.</p>
<p>@surge...Okay.....True i too believe that the numbers might be exaggerated....But whatever...The fact is that it did happen and it was wrong. I really don't care if the number was exagerated but I do care about people trying to minimalize something so bad. An act like this is outragous, no matter what the statistics say about the outcome. I'm not even chinese and I feel the outrage. I'm not saying that anyone should become violent about a 70 year old crime but we should all be vigilant to ensure it never happens again. The first step is admiting it happened. Down playing it is like saying its not as bad as everyone says so its not as evil.</p>
<p>LISTEN TO THIS.....the Japanese did living experiments......It is true and my friend EVEN PROVED THIS IN HIS IB EXTENDED ESSAY:
Japan did live human experiments, where they cut open people.....they found the treatment to frostbite and many more....THE US HELPED COVER THIS UP FOR JAPAN JUST TO GET THE INFORMATION FROM THE EXPERIMENTS....IT WAS RELEASED AROUND 2003 ABOUT THIS KNOWLEDGE....SO ARE WE LIKE JAPAN?</p>