The Causes Of The Nanjing Massacre

The Holocaust and the Rape of Nanjing were similar based on what was happening during the time of each event. During the Holocaust, the Jews had a loss of rights. Better well known as Nuremberg Laws. They lost their homes and had to live in what they called the ghettos. Numerous families were located in one house, there was no bathrooms, no showers, and they were not allowed to leave the “home.” Once they were taken from the Ghetto, their next trip was to the concentration camp, basically known as death chambers. They would take the Jews into

Before Nanking was invaded a tough battle in Shanghai began the war in the summer of 1937. The Chinese put up a shocking battle against japan. This was slightly embarrassing to Japan because they predicted that the would conquer all of China in only three months. The battle in Shanghai alone lasted a little over five months. This infuriated the Japanese and increased the appetite for revenge that was led up to Nanking.

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.

World War II played host to some of the most gruesome and largest mass killings in history. From the start of the war in 1939 until the end of the war in 1945 there were three mass killings, by three big countries on those who they thought were lesser peoples. The rape of Nanking, which was carried out by the Japanese, resulted in the deaths of 150,000 to 200,000 Chinese civilians and POW. A more well-known event was of the Germans and the Holocaust. Hitler and the Nazi regime persecuted and killed over 500,000 Jews. This last country may come as a surprise, but there is no way that someone could leave them out of the conversation. With the dropping of the Atomic bombs the United States killed over 200,000, not including deaths by

After the thousands of deaths in the well known Pearl Harbor and slightly lesser known rape and massacre of Nanking, attack and for the most part subsequent conquering of the Philippines, Guam,

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.

Nanking, now modern day Nanjing, was once the former capital of China, boasting a flourishing economy. However, the tranquility of the populous city would soon collapse. In 1937, the Japanese army attacked the capital, and for weeks bloodshed and rape ensued. In the midst of war, the city became dilapidated and riddled with destruction. The aftermath resulted in a debatable death toll, ranging from tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands of civilians and soldiers. Despite the atrocities and chaos that happened, there are little media representations on the Nanking massacre. Mass media can tell the story of an event that official documents cannot share. The Holocaust, for example, is internationally known to be a horrific, tragic event

In the span of six weeks 300,000 to 600,000 civilians of Nanjing, China were murdered and/or raped(“The rape of Nanking 1937-1938”1). The Holocaust had 9 million victims. There are many similarities and differences between the Holocaust and Rape and Nanjing. Both the Holocaust and Rape and Nanking are genocides. A genocide is the deliberate killing of a large group of people, especially those of a particular ethnic group or nation.

Rape of Nanjing also known as The Forgotten Holocaust of World War 2. In 1937, after the victory in Shanghai, the Japanese then marched to Nanjing with full intentions of killing all the captives. “Some were mowed down by machine gun fire while others were tied up soaked with the gasoline and burned alive”. Over 50,000 women and children were sexually assaulted. “Females were ... raped and gang banged by Japanese soldiers, pregnant women were raped then had their bellies split open and the fetuses torn out.” Japanese military forced father 's to rape their daughters, sons to rape their mothers and brothers to rape their sisters. They killed indiscriminately even forcing people to dig their own grave 's and bury one another. The country China was left in absolute devastation over one of Japan 's atrocities.

The Holocaust affect the Jews, Mentally/Physically Handicapped, and Dissenters. The Rape of Nanjing affected everyone in the city of Nanjing Visitors ,Chinese people ,kid ,parents ,and Grandparents (Walter2). The Perpetrators of the Holocaust were Hitler, SS/Gestapo, and Nazis. This SS and Gestapo were two elite groups of Nazi soldiers. The Gestapo was more of a spy. Their job was to find out where the Jews and find out who was keeping them and where they were hiding them and find out who was against the Jew party. The SS were every Jew's worst nightmare they were the brutal they didn't care. If they were supposed to kill you then you were dead and part of that was if they showed their brutality they got promotions. They gave their soldiers a drug called Methamphetamine. This drug made them where they got agitated easy and didn't require much food or sleep. The perpetrators of The Rape of Nanjing were the Japanese soldiers. At first the Chinese people were happy to see them because they didn't think the Japanese would go so low where they would rape the people and ruin their

This has been described as the Asian Holocaust. The Japanese are responsible for killing about 14,000,000 people. That number of people do not include the "lucky ones" who survived and are suffering today. Prisoners of war experienced through massacre, human experimentation, starvation, and forced labor. Massacre or also known as Nanking Massacre, was a mass killing and rape. Human experimentation was using conducting deadly and extremely dangerous experiments on humans to use the results on the rest of China. Extreme famine lasted the entire war. Forced labor or slavery, was having the imprisoned Chinese do hard work, and if not done or well, they would be threatened with deadly consequences. A white girl, Mary Previte, living in China who was schooled there, her school was taken over and imprisoned. Japan's military decided to turn the school into a military headquarters. She explained how gross the living was there by saying "If there were too many rats, the teachers would set the children the task of catching them. It was the same for flies and bedbugs. There were small prizes for the winners" (Mary). Imprisonment was horrible and it brought down a race and leads to tension that will be carried through many

The Rape of Nanking is a reference to the gruesome massacre that occurred in the town of Nanking which is in China. This unfortunate event occurred during the Second Sino-Japanese War and included the rape, murder, and looting of more than 300,000 innocent people. (Iris Chang, Rape of Nanking, pg. 100.) The numbers themselves show the gravity the Nanking Massacre but no simple number or statistic could show the ruthlessness and put the horror of such an event into a summary. The Rape of Nanking is a controversial topic due to not only the severity of the event but also the differing portrayals of its history. Although the common conception is that Japan vehemently denies the Rape of Nanking ever occurred and censors anything about it rather

In this book, Iris Chang brings to light the atrocities that occurred during the Nanking massacre by focusing on the initial Japanese attacks on the city, the work of the international community to protect the Chinese, and the subsequent cover up of the massacre. Chang’s primary argument is that the events surrounding the Rape of Nanking have been downplayed by western and Japanese scholars, and need to be discussed. A key element of the book is to counter a revisionist approach to the events of Nanking which, in her estimation, pervade Japanese schools and have subsequently misled westerners into believing that the Japanese military was not as vicious as they were. Her work does indeed provide a gut-wrenching account of the event while sifting

In late 1937, the Japanese army brutally murdered and assaulted civilians in Nanking, China over a period of six weeks. This event in history was one of the most horrendous and also an event that is rarely talked about or taught in school. This part of history was known as the Second Sino- Japanese war.

There have been several moments in history that display the cruelty humankind is capable of; one of those historical events is the Nanking Massacre of 1937, also known as the Rape of Nanking. The Nanking Massacre is a gruesome invasion that took place over a period of six weeks in city of China, Nanking, where Japanese Army forces slaughtered thousands upon thousand of Chinese civilians and raped over 20,000 women. This chaos led to some trivial moments of almost Chinese extinction in this region, where the Chinese were left helpless; however, there were some Westerners who stayed during this duration to protect the defenseless as much as humanly possible, such as Minnie Vautrin, John Rabe, John Magee, and George Fitch. Maybe through all this