The Nannking Massacre Or Rape Of 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.

On December 13, 1937, one of the worst atrocities in history took place generating what the majority of the population in the world is unaware about. Students learn about World War Two almost every year, specifically what happened in Europe while missing what took place in China. When Prince Akaska was the in charge of China in the absence of General Matsui, the Japanese decided to invade the City of Nanking. Nanking, the capital of China, went from being great to ruins in a matter of six weeks. As soon as the Japanese invaded China, about 300,000 soldiers surrendered along with a lot of citizens of Nanking in order to avoid experiencing one of the worst acts ever taken place. Soldiers knew, if they chose to fight, conditions were going to

In December of 1937, the Japanese Imperial Army invaded Nanking, China. They killed 300,00 out of the 600,000 people in China’s capital city. The six-week rampage by the Japanese is now known as the Rape of Nanking and the single worst atrocity during WWII era in either the European or Pacific theaters of the war.

Most people in the world never seem to realize the mass number of raping or killings that are going on around them. Meanwhile, during the holocaust, no one understood how much it was happening around them then either, except for the people it was happening to. Most people are aware of the savagery that occurred during the holocaust in Germany, but few have ever even heard of Nanjing, much less the rape of Nanjing. Both genocides share very close similarities, and they both also share their differences.

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

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.

As a species, humans have a long and bloodied history of attempting to eliminate one another to become dominant, from the Armenian genocide to the ethnic cleansing of the Tutsis in Rwanda. This mentality is not a new phenomenon, but has evolved to become even more lethal and prolific with the innovations in weaponry and transportation. Due to this disturbing universality, parallels are easily drawn between Iris Chang’s The Rape of Nanking and the art that was being created in Europe and the United States during the time of Hitler’s reign, including the work Seligmann, Stael and Albright. We must look to other global sources for this insight, due to the lack of photographic documentation in China and creation of art after the fact.

The Battle of the Bulge started with a surprise on December 16th when the German Army launched one of the largest Artillery bombardments the world has ever seen. Part of the Germans plan was to infiltrate the United States forces with Germans Soldiers with near perfect English in order to disrupt and cause confusions during the initial attacks. The German Soldiers were unable to maintain their disguise and were later executed. The initial surprise attack seemed at first like forward progress, however the United States 2nd and 99th Divisions maintain a strong hold at Elsenberg and Mamedy. Unfortunately for the American Soldiers December 16th also brought on another surprise, bad weather set in at the Ardennes region, limiting any air support

World War II was a devastating war, whether you were directly in the war zone, or away from the battlefield, you were impacted greatly. Flyboys is a book written by James Bradley, in this book Bradley tells stories of World War II using first-hand accounts. In chapter five, Bradley discusses “The Rape of China” which was a battle that took place in 1937 during the beginning of World War II. In this battle, the Japanese fight the Chinese and destroy China. Both Japan and China had very different moral beliefs on fighting in the war. China believed that the soldiers needed to “be courteous,” and to also be “neither selfish nor unjust” to civilians (Bradley 54). Meanwhile, the Japanese had totally opposite policies known as the “Three Alls” meaning

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

European settlers had arrived on the shores of Port Phillip Bay in 1835 and preceded to settle in Melbourne. Many massacres occurred in the Kulin nation periodically after the settler’s arrival (https://c21ch.newcastle.edu.au/colonialmassacres/map.php) forcing many of the Kulin clans to flee their land as an act of survival. There was also no spare land that was available for them that wasn’t occupied by settlers or squatters, Aboriginals only took up 1% of the land they once fully inhabited(video) Furthermore, the lieutenant-governor Charles La Trobe issued a ban on the Aboriginal people in 1840 from living in Melbourne (http://coranderrk.com/wordpress/?page_id=768). These ancestors who were separated from their land which had begun to replicate a European city must have suffered from terrible effects on their identity and their spirituality, understanding the

Although the Japanese believed it was dishonarable to surrender and probably thought they made the best decision, I am sure they didnt think about the lives they were putting in danger. The civilians that died were not to blame, and shouldnt have had to endure the devastions of the war but sadly they did live on a military port.

But one time, a Calvary of Mongolians crossed the border of Manchuria to find some grass to feed their horses. The Japanese attacked the small unit, and drove the Mongols out. Then the Mongolian unit brought an army into Manchuria, but this time Japan was not able to defend against them. The Mongolians, with the Soviets, were too strong for the Japanese to defeat them and the Japanese got surrounded. Eight officers were killed along with ninety-seven soldiers, and one officer was wounded along with thirty-three soldiers on May 28. (Young) The Japanese were miserably defeated by the Soviet Union, but that did not convince the Japanese to stop attacking.

60,000 soldiers were sacrificed and fifty percent of their territory had been occupied by Chiang's forces. For this reason, the Chinese Communist Party must flee from this massacre and preserve their remaining military strength. As a result, their retreat became the world renowned Long March, which began on October 14, 1934.

The small things can make a big difference in the world. The holocaust started out as a small thing against the Jews like making them wear yellow stars. It started with that and then Hitler turned it into a full scale war against the Jewish. The Jewish people were in the same situation as the Chinese people were they both tried to hide and run. The Rape of Nanjing were a mass murder of hundreds of thousands of people that had no involvement in the war. Also like the holocaust the Rape of Nanjing started with small fighting and as time progressed it turned into something bigger than it should have been. The Jews were put down and labeled as an aliens and they put signs