Facts

Usually in history class, you’ll briefly go over the Rape of Nanking, only briefly because it’s one of the smaller points of World War II. Some call it the forgotten genocide of WWII, but China still remembers it well: “They were shocked by the Japanese atrocities committed in and around the fallen city” (Lu 19). The Japanese entered Nanking on December 13^th, and the genocide lasted 6 weeks. They murdered, raped, and looted the unarmed Chinese. The death toll might’ve exceeded 100,000 people, but no one is sure because they couldn’t count all the bodies that were destroyed by the Japanese. The USA and Great Britain had journalists near the city at the time of the genocide, and they struggled to get the word of the massacre to their home countries. They couldn’t get there because there was no running water, power, mail, or telegrams. Eventually the US tried to get the Japanese to make peace after “the brutality committed by Japanese troops against the people of Nanking (Nanjing), China, in 1937, during the Sino-Japanese War of 1937-1945” (Cook). This only worsened the effects of WWII.

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