Map of China showing location of Nanjing.
On the Eastern border near the Yellow Sea.
Map shows locations of attacks from Japanese.
3.04.2007
Maps of Nanjing Massacre
Map of China showing location of Nanjing.
On the Eastern border near the Yellow Sea.
Map shows locations of attacks from Japanese.
3.03.2007
First Person Accounts of the Nanjing Massacre
"This afternoon Headquarters has about one hundred more women living in this immediate neighborhood who have been raped since last night and have come to the place for protection." -Huang Wenkui
Dec 18th
"They bayoneted one little boy, killing him, and I spent an hour and a half this morning patching up another little boy of eight who had five bayonet wounds including one that penetrated his stomach, a portion of the omentum was outside the abdomen."
- Robert Wilson, a doctor in the safety zone set up by the European countries.
Dec 19th
"It is a horrible story to relate; I know not where to begin nor to end. Never have I heard of read of such brutality. Rape: We estimate at least 1,000 cases a night and many by day. In case of resistance or anything that seems like disapproval there is a bayonet stab or bullet.
- James McCallum, in a letter he wrote to his family.
Dec 18th
"They bayoneted one little boy, killing him, and I spent an hour and a half this morning patching up another little boy of eight who had five bayonet wounds including one that penetrated his stomach, a portion of the omentum was outside the abdomen."
- Robert Wilson, a doctor in the safety zone set up by the European countries.
Dec 19th
"It is a horrible story to relate; I know not where to begin nor to end. Never have I heard of read of such brutality. Rape: We estimate at least 1,000 cases a night and many by day. In case of resistance or anything that seems like disapproval there is a bayonet stab or bullet.
- James McCallum, in a letter he wrote to his family.
Eight Steps of Genocide
CLASSIFICATION
-Chinese P.O.W.'s
(The Japanese soilders felt these men as a threat)
-Chinese women
(Were thought to be there for the Japanese soilders sexual pleasure)
SYMBOLIZATION
-The Chinese men wearing civilian clothes.
DEHUMANIZATION
-Raping
-Mutilating fetuses of Chinese women
-Forcing familes commit incest
ORGANIZATION
-Japanese soilders and officers gang raping
POLARIZATION
-When the Chinese P.O.W.'s (men) were taken away from
the center of Nanjing, and the women were left in the city.
Seperating the victims of the genocide.
PREPARATION
- Removing the Chinese men to the border of Nanjing
EXERMINATION
-Raping and killing
-Killing contests
-Burning bodies dead or alive
-Pillaging houses
-Bayonette "practice"
DENIAL
-The country of Japan has not issued a formal appology to Chinese government
-Japan claims that the Nanjing Massacre was propaganda spread by the Chinese before WWII
-Chinese P.O.W.'s
(The Japanese soilders felt these men as a threat)
-Chinese women
(Were thought to be there for the Japanese soilders sexual pleasure)
SYMBOLIZATION
-The Chinese men wearing civilian clothes.
DEHUMANIZATION
-Raping
-Mutilating fetuses of Chinese women
-Forcing familes commit incest
ORGANIZATION
-Japanese soilders and officers gang raping
POLARIZATION
-When the Chinese P.O.W.'s (men) were taken away from
the center of Nanjing, and the women were left in the city.
Seperating the victims of the genocide.
PREPARATION
- Removing the Chinese men to the border of Nanjing
EXERMINATION
-Raping and killing
-Killing contests
-Burning bodies dead or alive
-Pillaging houses
-Bayonette "practice"
DENIAL
-The country of Japan has not issued a formal appology to Chinese government
-Japan claims that the Nanjing Massacre was propaganda spread by the Chinese before WWII
3.02.2007
Commands: "When you are finished with them . . . kill them"
Government Officals or Military Leaders Involved in the Nanjing Massacre
-Senior members of the Japanese high command
-The Japanese emperor Hirohitio made all military decisions, and decided to invade China in 1937
-Hirohito's uncle Prince Asaka issued the order to Japanese soilders ''kill all captives"
and created ideas how to kill the Chinese man with General Yangawa Heisuke and Lieut
-General Nakaijma Kesago, supervised the beheading of two P.O.W.'s to test his new sword
Which he used to set an example for his troops, as how to exterminate the Chinese.
-Senior members of the Japanese high command
-The Japanese emperor Hirohitio made all military decisions, and decided to invade China in 1937
-Hirohito's uncle Prince Asaka issued the order to Japanese soilders ''kill all captives"
and created ideas how to kill the Chinese man with General Yangawa Heisuke and Lieut
-General Nakaijma Kesago, supervised the beheading of two P.O.W.'s to test his new sword
Which he used to set an example for his troops, as how to exterminate the Chinese.
3.01.2007
Japanese Forms of Punishment and Torture
CHINESE WOMEN
-Woman were raped and killed
-They cut off their breasts and gutted their stomachs
-Brought the women to brothels
-Chinese women were forced to become slave prostitutes
(existing for the sexual pleasure of Japanese soldiers)
-No woman of any age was safe
-Women who were pregnant were not spared either
-Every 1 out of 2 Chinese women was a victim of rape
CHINESE CIVILLIANS
-Forced labour in the jungle of south east Asia
-Fathers were forced to rape their own daughters
sons had to have sex with their mothers and
brothers with their sisters
and relatives had to watch them.
-Citywide burnings
-Thefts
-Massive property destruction
-Soldiers frequently fired their rifles into panicked crowds of civilians
-They gave people of all ages opium, to pacify the population
(50,000 became addicted to heroin)
DEATHS: (about 300,000 Chinese killed)
-Brought Chinese POW's to the border of the city and killed them with machine guns.
-Poured gasoline over the Chinese victims and burned them, in some cases, while the victims were still alive
-Buried them alive
-Burned them alive
-Set houses on fire after locking people of all ages inside
-Drowned them
-Hung them on iron hangers
-Buried Chinese in waist high holes
-Used rabid dogs to attack the Chinese in the holes
-Decapitated them
-Used them for bayonette practice
-Mutilateded them
-Bound Chinese citizens
-Stabbed victims
-Strangled them
-Forced to dig their own graves
-Woman were raped and killed
-They cut off their breasts and gutted their stomachs
-Brought the women to brothels
-Chinese women were forced to become slave prostitutes
(existing for the sexual pleasure of Japanese soldiers)
-No woman of any age was safe
-Women who were pregnant were not spared either
-Every 1 out of 2 Chinese women was a victim of rape
CHINESE CIVILLIANS
-Forced labour in the jungle of south east Asia
-Fathers were forced to rape their own daughters
sons had to have sex with their mothers and
brothers with their sisters
and relatives had to watch them.
-Citywide burnings
-Thefts
-Massive property destruction
-Soldiers frequently fired their rifles into panicked crowds of civilians
-They gave people of all ages opium, to pacify the population
(50,000 became addicted to heroin)
DEATHS: (about 300,000 Chinese killed)
-Brought Chinese POW's to the border of the city and killed them with machine guns.
-Poured gasoline over the Chinese victims and burned them, in some cases, while the victims were still alive
-Buried them alive
-Burned them alive
-Set houses on fire after locking people of all ages inside
-Drowned them
-Hung them on iron hangers
-Buried Chinese in waist high holes
-Used rabid dogs to attack the Chinese in the holes
-Decapitated them
-Used them for bayonette practice
-Mutilateded them
-Bound Chinese citizens
-Stabbed victims
-Strangled them
-Forced to dig their own graves
2.28.2007
Killing Competitions
Killing Contests took place between the Japanese soliders to see who could kill more Chinese civilians. The contests were even featured in the newspapers as entertainment.
Invasion of Nanjing I
Noon, December 9, 1937, the Japanese Imperial Army dropped military leaflets over the city of Nanjing. The leaflets urged Nanjing to surrender with 24 hours.
" The Japanese Army, one million strong, has already conquered Changshu. We have surrounded the city of Nanjing. . . The Japanese Army shall show no mercy toward those who offer resistance, treating them with extreme severity, but shall harm neither innocent civilians nor Chinese military who manifest no hostility. It is our earnest desire to preserve the East Asian culture. If your troops continue to fight, war in Nanjing is inevitable. The culture that has endured for a millennium will be reduced to ashes, and the government that has lasted for a decade will vanish into thin air. The commander-in-chief issues bills to your troops on behalf of the Japanese Army. Open the gates of Nanjing in a peaceful manner, and obey the following instructions."
" The Japanese Army, one million strong, has already conquered Changshu. We have surrounded the city of Nanjing. . . The Japanese Army shall show no mercy toward those who offer resistance, treating them with extreme severity, but shall harm neither innocent civilians nor Chinese military who manifest no hostility. It is our earnest desire to preserve the East Asian culture. If your troops continue to fight, war in Nanjing is inevitable. The culture that has endured for a millennium will be reduced to ashes, and the government that has lasted for a decade will vanish into thin air. The commander-in-chief issues bills to your troops on behalf of the Japanese Army. Open the gates of Nanjing in a peaceful manner, and obey the following instructions."
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