The Rape Of Nanking Essay

During November 1937, Japanese Imperial Army too Nanjing, the capital of China at the time and home to more than one million Chinese citizen. The Japanese began a spree of murder, rape and looting, destroying and burning everything. As a result, hundreds of thousands of Chinese citizen were dead, with hundreds of thousands more starving, traumatized and homeless. This historical event The Rape of Nanjing is the focus of this book. The book “The Good Man of Nanking” by John Rabe also known as “The Good Man of Nanking: The Diaries of John Rabe”. Just like the tittle stated “The Diaries of John Rabe”, this book is a collection of personal journals John Rade kept during the Nanjing Massacre. As a German businessman who lived in Nanjing during the time of the Nanjing Massacre in 1937-1938 the writings are from his personal experience and observation of the events that took place. Rabe was a businessman who saved the life of 250,000 Chinese residents of Nanking. As the Japanese army closed in on the city, all foreigners were ordered to evacuate, but Rabe didn’t he gathered up the remaining Westerners and organized an “International Safety Zone”. The Journals covers a six-month period form September, 1937 when the Japanese began bombing the city through February, 1938 when Rabe was
During Second Sino-Japanese War, mass murder and mass rape by Japanese troops against the residents of Nanjing. Over a period of six weeks over 300,000 innocent citizens were killed. The diaries of John Reba on one hand showed the life’s he saved but on the other it also showed the awful and brutal reality that was happening. “It is not until we tour the city that we learn the extent of the destruction. We come across corpses every 100 and 200 yards. The bodies of civilians that I examined had bullet holes in their back. These people had presumably been fleeing and were shot from behind.”