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.