The Rape of Nanking
I have read the book titled "The Rape of Nanking". This book is appropriately titled due to thesubject matter it covers. It covers an incident during World War II known as "The Rape ofNanking". The book was written by Iris Chang and is two hundred and thirty pages long with anadditional twenty four pages of pictures. The Rape of Nanking was an incident that occurred in December of 1937. Nanking at thistime was the capital city of Nationalist China. During this incident Japanese soldiers raped,tortured, and killed Chinese soldiers and civilians totaling nearly three hundred thousand people.The official date that is credited to the day when "Nanking fell" is December 13, 1937. TheChinese government was forced to regroup elsewhere as the Japanese controlled this city untilthe war ended eight years later in 1945. Nanking wasn't the only part of China the Japanese controlled. It was where the worstatrocities took place and where the Chinese people were hurt the most. It all started with Japantaking the city of Manchuria. Quickly to be taken over after that were Chahar, Hopeh, Peking,Tiensin, Shangai, and then Nanking. The reasons for the Japanese attempt to takeover Chinawere Japan had its own master race t
Instead the Japanesehave made themselves out to look like the victims due to the bombings of Hiroshima andNagasaki. Other problems included lack of nerveand lack of cohesiveness among the army. On December 9 leaflets were dropped on the city. Afterthe prisoners became to hungry and dehydrated to revolt or even think of anything they were tiedby the wrists and led to the places were they were to be executed. The maximum amount of food that could be grownon the amount of land available was grown. The people who remained were mostly defenseless. Other people didn't have the fortune ofsudden death. The onlyoption left seemed to be to expand and gain more territory. Also somepeople have the belief that "history is condemned to repeat itself". Before the war the cities population had been over a million people. Many citizens hung Japanese flags from their windows and some even rushed out towelcome the oncoming troops. There was no place that rapes didn'thappen. The strategy was to have troops onthe other two sides of Nanking thus enabling Japan to use nature to circle the citizens in. They were shot at withmachine guns, beheaded, and stabbed with bayonets.
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