The Rape of Nanking

Introduction

Almost everyone knows today, a dark chapter in history from 1939 to 1945, when Hitler's armies launched in Europe, has claimed the lives of millions of people, including six million Jews. However, few people know what happened, millions of people in China, 1937-1945. Iris Chang's Rape of Nanjing is a reference book because it reveals, finally, remember the important point, perhaps the most terrible atrocities of the Second World War: Japanese Imperial Army on the civilian population, innocent Chinese atrocities. Photo books are also important to find the reasons behind Japan's brutal. The description of the Nanjing Massacre of cooling and Chinese civilians who did not enter Nanjing, the Kuomintang (KMT), soldiers in the capital to escape the Walled City. In December 1937, the Chinese army defended Nanking to give up resistance and the Japanese ancient capital of the evil devastated overflow. In the next few weeks, the Japanese raped and / or killed by Chinese soldiers, and in the long and bloody war in the history of one of the most brutal incidents of civilians (perhaps as many as 350,000 people were killed) hundreds of thousands. But if you're like me, "Nanjing Massacre” is little more than vaguely remembered from a long history book. Iris Chang's book remedies this situation, so that the full airing of the facts, they deserve it, and explain why so bad to remember the Holocaust - This is mainly because she thought political considerations. The result is a very moving memorial act, provides mixed lessons (Peter, 1988).

Discussion

In December 1937, in Nanjing (Nanking), the national capital, the Chinese army and the Japanese troops occupied the city without a fight. The infamous Nanjing Massacre, which is followed by prisoners of war and Chinese civilians as a pretext, they fled their uniforms who had been eliminated the soldiers began to mass murder the man. Since breaking the Japanese military discipline, they began indiscriminate killing of civilians. Estimated number of casualties varies widely. In the central region on the Tokyo war crimes trials number: 42000 cities killed more than 10 million, six weeks in the field. The local war crimes immediately after the war in Nanjing, an estimated 190,000 deaths were not trial. Iris Chang was a reasonable estimate of up to 30 million deaths. This event is also in the literal sense of the rape. Falls in Tokyo on the evidence of war crimes, Japanese soldiers raped at least 20,000 Chinese women, many of whom were later killed. Holocaust began with the prisoners or soldiers involved, and then extend these clear civilians, including women, children and the elderly.

Iris Chang asked why so little is remembered of this atrocity. Western historical memory of World War II, of course, focused on the struggle against Nazi Germany, usually pays little attention to Asia in the war before Pearl Harbor. However, this does not fully explain the relative obscurity of the Nanjing Massacre.

Iris Chang attributed this to silence the conspiracy and intimidation of political motives of the atmosphere, to ...