The Holocaust in China
Before World War 2 China was in a civil war, but with the rising tension with Japan the country united to fight off the soon to be Japanese aggression. In 1937 Japan invades China, but with China weak from internal war the Japanese invade easily. After capturing Shanghai (the capital) in November 1937, Japan launched an attack on the new capital of China, Nanking.
On December 13 1937 Nanking was captured and japanese soldiers cruelty began. Young chinese men were herded out to the outer city areas and mowed down by machine guns, used as bayonet practice and soaked in gasoline and burned alive. Japanese soldiers had "killing competitions", where soldiers had contests to see how many they can kill. 50,000 japanese soldiers participated, reports of some killing over 100 and 1 captain killing over 300 chinese. By the end of the Rape of Nanking 260,000 to 350,000 chinese has been killed, between 20,000 to 80,000 chinese women were raped, murdered and tortured. There are stories in which Japanese soldiers being exhausted at the end of the day from beheading chinese children. So brutal were the atrocities that Nazis in China were shocked. John Rabe, a german businessman who led a local Nazi party, joined a group of foreigners (which include jews who were given visas to escape nazi camps)to try and save the Chinese from slaughter. He and other foreigners saved 250,000 people. The massacre lasted 6 weeks.
By the end of the war, between 10 to 30 million Chinese had died from slaughter, forced starvation, medical experiments and germ warfare which included testing Plague bombs. Japan has not aknowledged or apologized for the atrocities to this day, and do not teach it in schools unlike the Germans who by law have to teach about the holocaust. It may not have been as systematic as the holocaust in Europe, but the brutality was just as horrific.
Before World War 2 China was in a civil war, but with the rising tension with Japan the country united to fight off the soon to be Japanese aggression. In 1937 Japan invades China, but with China weak from internal war the Japanese invade easily. After capturing Shanghai (the capital) in November 1937, Japan launched an attack on the new capital of China, Nanking.
On December 13 1937 Nanking was captured and japanese soldiers cruelty began. Young chinese men were herded out to the outer city areas and mowed down by machine guns, used as bayonet practice and soaked in gasoline and burned alive. Japanese soldiers had "killing competitions", where soldiers had contests to see how many they can kill. 50,000 japanese soldiers participated, reports of some killing over 100 and 1 captain killing over 300 chinese. By the end of the Rape of Nanking 260,000 to 350,000 chinese has been killed, between 20,000 to 80,000 chinese women were raped, murdered and tortured. There are stories in which Japanese soldiers being exhausted at the end of the day from beheading chinese children. So brutal were the atrocities that Nazis in China were shocked. John Rabe, a german businessman who led a local Nazi party, joined a group of foreigners (which include jews who were given visas to escape nazi camps)to try and save the Chinese from slaughter. He and other foreigners saved 250,000 people. The massacre lasted 6 weeks.
By the end of the war, between 10 to 30 million Chinese had died from slaughter, forced starvation, medical experiments and germ warfare which included testing Plague bombs. Japan has not aknowledged or apologized for the atrocities to this day, and do not teach it in schools unlike the Germans who by law have to teach about the holocaust. It may not have been as systematic as the holocaust in Europe, but the brutality was just as horrific.
