"On a trip to Hsiakwan, I literally drove over dead bodies. Day after day you have to drive past the dead, who appear even in my dreams. I did not see a single live human, not even in the larger villages. Everything has been burned down or is dead."
- Christian Kroger, Nazi Party Member, resident of Nanking.
In the year 1931, Japan entered China and annexed Manchurian and the Jehol province. The tension between China and Japan grew, causing the Chinese to fire at the Japanese in Perking, or as known now, Beijing. This gave Japan an excuse to start a war with China. And thus began the Rape of Nanking.
Japan entered Nanjing, China in December 13, 1937 and began burning down buildings and took Chinese POWS (prisoners of wars), lined them up along a river near the city and started bayoneting each men individually. Children and even infants were killed. Not even the elders were spared. Women were raped, from any age of six to seventy. The whole family, including all three of the generations, were forced to watch their family members being raped and raping each other. Husbands were forced to watch their wives raped by their sons or the wives were forced to watch their husbands raped their daughters. Brothers raped their sisters, grandsons raped their grandmothers and so on. Women stood and watched their child being decapitated, while waiting to be raped.
In details: women were nailed to the walls and ran over by tanks, then raped. Girls who were not suitable for rape were sliced apart (keep in mind, these where children of age six). Japanese soldiers gang bang pregnant women, where she was slice in half as her fetus falls out. Men were hung by the tongue on iron hooks and babies were thrown and bayoneted on the way down. Most of the dead corpses were thrown into the Yangtze River causing the water to turn red. Adding up all the deaths, more people died in the Rape of Nanking than the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki combined. More could have died, but luckily there were missionaries, business men and foreigners who resided at Nanjing and created the Nanking Safety Zone.
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