Nanking Massacre 1937

November, 17th 2012
The Nanking Massacre 1937 In December of 1937 the Japanese attacked and invaded Nanking China by beating the Chinese Army. For the next six weeks the biggest atrocities of World War 2 were committed. Women were raped repeatedly; some were even raped until they died. Pregnant women would get mutilated, men and young boys were killed by the bayonet, and Chinese soldiers were shot and hung all over the City. The Japanese deny the accusations and say the Massacre never happened. Before the Japanese took the Nanking in December, the Japanese bombed Nanking numerous times from September to late November. After all the Bombings the Chinese Laborers would get out and clean the streets up, move debris, laid new telephone
On December 9th 1937 30,000 Chinese flooded into the Safe Zone in the matter of a few hours. Them on the 17th of 1937 50,000 men under the age of 40 were killed in a mass execution. Articles, from the China Press a Chinese paper written in English and the New York Times made it to Japan and the Japanese Government was outraged. The Japanese said that the Japanese troops would not ever do such things like that. The Japanese claimed it was Chinese Bandits that was doing all the atrocities. They also say the China Press embellished the story and replaced the Chinese with the Japanese to make them Japanese look like the bad guys (Wakabayashi,
She wrote in her diary that some of the more well off Chinese in the city of Nanking made and hung their own Japanese flags. The thought was that the Japanese would treat them better than the others. That was not the case; all of them got the same treatment as everyone else. She tells how you get use to the sight of dead bodies laying in the streets, but you still do not get use to seeing all the men and children getting shot or bayoneted, or of seeing young women getting raped again and again and then getting shot after their duty was done. Vautrin thinks that it will all get better some day, but after seeing all this it was hard for her to think it will get better (Hua-ling Hu, 35-37). Tsen was another member of the Foreign Ministry. She wrote in her diary about seven Japanese soldiers that came to her building in the Safe Zone. The soldiers did not do anything to any of the refugees but one. This Young man was Terrified he would be killed and the soldiers saw that. They ordered him to stand up and take all his clothes off with a bayonet in his face. Once he was naked the soldiers left him alone, which by then the man was shacking and cry very loudly. Then the Japanese Solders sawthe American Flag on the flag pole and they ordered a servant at the building to take the flag down. Before the servant could the soldiers were scared away by other Foreign Ministry Members (Wakabayashi,