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The only reason why the rape of Nanjing is not as big a deal in western eyes is because of the cold war.
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It's a big deal in
this American's eyes. I've read many books about it and watched several documentaries.
It was six weeks of systematic, inhuman hell on earth.
Not only were two hundred thousand men, women, infants, children, and elderly people sexually tortured, brutalized, slaughtered, and dismembered, with a ferocity which terrified even Japan's nazi allies* but as time went on the Japanese became even more perverse, forcing celibate monks to rape girls and terrorized families to commit incest before slaughtering them all.**
It's one of those situations that makes you wish you could somehow go back in time and do something-
anything!- to change the course of history.
What in God's name I would do to change it, I do not know.
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Nazi loyalist John Rabe, living in Nanking at the time of the siege, wrote to Hitler to complain of the behavior of the Japanese. He also hid hundreds of Chinese inside his house and walled garden during the siege, to save them from rape and death at the hands of the Japanese.
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The Rape of Nanking by Iris Chang
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