Nanjing Massacre: The Rape Of Nanking

They got tortured, brutally slaughtered, and raped. The perpetrators of the Holocaust are Adolf Hitler, all Nazi Soldiers, and SS/ Gestapo. The reason behind the blaming of Adolf Hitler is because at the time, he was their (german people) leader. He wanted a genetically perfect world. He murdered anyone who was different. Dark skinned people such as the Jews would be put in the concentration camps. They would be gassed, then thrown away like trash. All Nazi Soldiers are to blame because they murdered, kidnapped, and gassed the Jews.. The SS/ Gestapo are to blame because they were the special “Soldiers” that tortured the Jews and killed them. The perpetrators of the Rape of Nanjing would have to be Japanese soldiers and all Japanese Military. The reason behind their blame is they bombarded the city and slaughtered the innocent civilians, and they raped innocent woman and children. They even murdered newborn babies and fetuses.

The tight control of the Japanese Army promoted resistance from the civilians of South East Asia. This occurred in areas of strategic importance for the Japanese. Starvation and brutality towards civilians in territories led to outbreaks of political violence and strong resistance. The civilians of Malaya met the Japanese forces with strong resistance in the form of guerilla warfare and sabotage to capture Japanese outposts and encourage social revolution. As Falk argues the Japanese responded to the networks of resistance by ‘drawing out forces and firing on them unexpectedly’, leading to the death of over 50,000 people in Malaya. It is evident that the increase in political violence led to a considerable amount of occupied death in territories of South East Asia.

Infants were axed or speared, or hit against a rock to kill them. Females were raped and scalped. Some females and children were taken captive. Many captives did not make it out of enemy country. They were raped and killed on the trail, leaving bloody relics behind for their enemy. Torture included staking men out facing the sun with no eyelids and leaving them. They also used fire to torture. One account tells how they staked out some captured Tonkawa and applied fire to their hand and feet until they destroyed the nerves. They would then amputate the extremity and start the fire torture all over on the wounded flesh. They would cut their tongues out to silence screams. Scalps were almost always taken, many times while the victims were still alive. The dead were mutilated terribly. They cut off limbs, mutilated genitals, decapitated victims after scalping them, and eviscerated their bodies. They believed that this would cripple their enemy for

After the reign of terror committed by the Japanese against the Chinese POWs, next was the civilians, they specifically targeted the women of Nanking. Old women over the age of seventy and little girls younger than eight were drug away from their families and raped by the soldiers. More than 20,000 females were taken and gang-raped by the viscous soldiers then stabbed to death or shot so they cannot tell the tale to anyone because that was against the code of military honor. Not even pregnant woman were spared, in several occasions they were raped then had their bellies slit open and the fetus torn out. Sometimes when the Japanese stormed the homes and encountered the entire family, the soldiers would force the fathers rape their daughters, sons were forced to rape their own mothers, and brothers had to rape there sisters while the rest of the family must watch.

Throughout The Rape of Nanking, the brutal massacre of thousands of innocent Chinese citizens is brought forth through the invasion of this ancient city taken over by the Imperial Japanese army. Iris Chang illustrates the graphic details of the murder and rape of these victims through the perspectives of different sides of the attack. Chang; furthermore, ties in the mass genocide and destruction displayed throughout the book with the example of the Japanese government’s desperate attempt to cover up the incident and the reluctance of the survivors to discuss it. In addition, the horrifying events of The Rape of Nanking only further motivated an uncontrollable desire for aggression, violence, and imperialism in the Asian community evidently

Mobile killing units...began shooting massive numbers of Jews and Gypsies in open fields and ravines on the outskirts of conquered cities and towns” (Bulow). On a night known as the Night of Broken Glass, a Nazi leader “...reported 7500 businesses destroyed, 267 synagogues burned (177 totally destroyed) and 91 Jews killed” (“Night”). Along with these ruthless acts, millions died in ghettos and concentration camps also from starvation, brutality, forced labor, or execution.

Despite having the horrific Nanking Massacre occur 70 years ago, its history is barely buried like many of the dead were at the time. The Nanking Massacre (also known as the Rape of Nanking) occurred as a part of the 2nd Sino-Japanese War, which would then become part of World War II. This war involved the Republic of China defending against the invading Japanese forces. Unfortunately, China was weakened due to a civil war between the Communists and the Nationalists, so it was easily invaded. The Nanking Massacre shows the negative elements of Human Nature and should be taught in schools because it portrays the brutality of the Japanese in Asia.

Japanese soldiers are widely remembered as being cruel and indifferent to the fate of Allied prisoners of war. Cruelty could take different forms, from extreme violence and torture to minor acts of physical punishment, humiliation and neglect. Some prisoners were made to hold a heavy stone above their heads for many hours. Others might be forced into small cells with little food or water.

I was shocked by a Japanese man named Shiro Azuma, a Japanese soldier who had attend the massacre. After the end of the war, he analyzed the diary he wrote during the invasion of China as The Diary of Shiro Azuma. He came to Nanjing during his lifetime to apologize for the atrocity he had do to this city. However, he was accused by groups of Japanese people about some description in his diary, and he was die before he successfully prove that all the stories in his diary are true.

The most gruesome tales have come to light by the people who survived the merciless actions of the Japanese soldiers. For instance, Tang Shunsan who witnessed and survived the mass murder of Nanking when he left the safety of his hideout behind due to his simple curiosity. Tang and his fellow shoemaker apprentices hid in their house where they converted the doorway so it looked like “...from the outside, a smooth, unbroken wall”(nanking 2). The Japanese soldiers never would have known he was there had he not ventured out into the open to satiate his curiosities of what a Japanese man looked like. Once discovered, he was taken to a large grave for the Chinese people they had killed, and, “...to Tang’s horror, a competition began among the soldiers-a competition to determine who could kill the fastest”(nanking 3 pg. 85). With luck on his side, Tang survived the competition when “ the soldier decapitated the man directly in front of Tang”(nanking 4) and instead of moving out of the way, “Tang also toppled backwards and dropped, together with the body, into the pit”(nanking

The Japanese soldiers had no sense of remorse or sorrow for the prisoners instead they pushed them to their breaking point. Many prisoners collapsed which proved fatal because if you fell behind you became a practice dummy for the Japanese to sharpen their bayonet skills and techniques of killing on you. On one occasion, a prisoner was falling behind in the rear so tanks that followed lined themselves up to run over the victim and squish him into the pavement to make it look as if he were from a cartoon. Since the Japanese could

Why were the Japanese so cruel during WWII? Honor is the main reason. The Japanese soldiers were very faithful to their nation. Even nowadays, the honor and patriotism still are extremely strong in Japan. They were taught that if a soldier surrendered and didn’t fight till the end being afraid of the death, meant a failure. Consequently, they would be punished and disrespected. Japanese hierarchy worked like a class system. Prisoners were at the last rung. Therefore, any Japanese soldier could chastise them. Physical discipline was allotted for even unimportant infractions, for example, neglecting to salute Japanese military. This meant for a Japanese to lose face. The most widely recognized type of discipline was face-slapping. Soldiers used mostly hard instruments, such as a shovel, for this punishment. An Australian surgeon did some research on prisoners. He described the injuries they obtained when they missed work because of the prostration: “blows with a fist, hammering over the face and head with wooden clogs, repeatedly thrown to the ground…kicking in the stomach and scrotum and ribs etc …” (The War Diaries of Weary Dunlop). The Japanese utilized numerous sorts of physical discipline. For example, they could force the prisoners to hold a heavy stove above their head for several days with no food or water. Another punishment was to put them in a cage for weeks and not provide them any nutrition. Japanese soldiers made fun of the detainees and their sad lives. The camp was like a show for them. Gavan Daws states that the Japanese often took ‘extreme measures’ against detainees. Especially, when they tried to escape: “Whether they are destroyed individually or in groups, or however it is done, with mass bombing, poisonous smoke, […] , or what, dispose of the prisoners as the situation dictates. In any case it is the aim not to allow the escape of a single one, to annihilate them all, and not

All over the history of Earth, there has been multiple encounters between various nationalities. No matter if it is between Jews and Nazis, Serbs targeting Bosniak and Croatian civilians, or the Sudan government against Darfuri citizens, there has always been a threat to a certain group of people. Holocausts have happened all around the world, but they are avertible. In the Nanjing Massacre, around 300,000 Chinese citizens were raped and killed by Japanese troops. It occurred from December of 1937 to January of 1938 in Nanjing, China. This is located west of Shanghai, near the Jiang River. Key components vary throughout each genocide, but in the Rape of Nanking they were the raping of women, the short amount of time it occurred in, and the destruction of Nanjing.

On the march from Shanghai to Nanjing, the Japanese soldiers marched relentlessly as they believed that they could easily gain control of Nanjing before Chinese troops could do as little rebuilding as they could. During the march to Nanjing two Japanese officers had a bet to see who could kill more people by sword. The bet made was that they would see who could kill one hundred people before the capture of Nanjing. After Japan eventually surrendered, the two officers, Toshiaki Mukai and Tsuyoshi Noda, were arrested and executed for what they had done in Nanjing. “Those in charge of the Japanese forces went so far as to use killing "competitions" as a way to boost morale among the troops. They even organized interview teams and sent newspaper reporters to conduct interviews with the "winners" of these competitions to kill people.” The Japanese went so far as to reward the people who could kill more

Before during the first Sino Japanese war the Japanese had invaded the city of Nanking in China . They went around torturing the families and causing pain to everyone. They would burry civilians alive and throw kids in wells. Just like Hitler the Japanese had camps were they would torture and starve people. In these camps they would also force labor and had people working in the heat. In WW2 1942 the Japanese attacked and bombed Australian boats in Singapore. The Australian boats had 65 nurses except only 50 were able to swim away. In the battle versus the Philippine the Philippines surrendered and the Japanese saw this as a weakness. The Japanese later made the soldiers take a march known as the Bataan Death march. In total there was 22000 American soldiers but only 150000 made it home. Along with these the Japanese had other successful battles like the Battle of Midway, Battle of Leyte Golf , and the Battle of Iwo Jima and Okinawa.