@AImpatientMan

1 week ago

The rape of nanking. The general who was supposed to be in charge of the seige came down with pneumonia a few days before the assault and was not there to lead his troops but the officers "boosted the morale" a bit too much.

The chineese soliders who lost the battle and eventually surrendered were seen as below human for surrendering. They got dragged to the edge of the city, dug their own graves then got mowed down by machine guns/lit on fire/beheaded and bayonetted/tortured to death being encouraged by officers of the japan army to inflict as much pain as possible. Once the city was under rule, the army distributed opiums/heroins/other narcotics to the civilians to passify them and they went crazy. For 6 weeks they pillaged the city, killing/raping/both to the civilians. There was reports(as in actual pictures) of pregnent women getting their fetuses bayonetted out of their bodies because they would practice bayonett charges on them. Girls from 8 to 70 years old got hauled away to be sexually assaulted to death, one report from a trooper in the army said that the womens gentials got so inflamed they had to cut slits in them to continue sexually assaulting them, if they somehow survived they were stabbed/shot to death after. Men were forced to sexually assault their sons/daughters then shot as well. The army also forced some women to stay alive and be sex slaves for the army. The army would fire wildly into civilian crowds, and if they were out past curfew shot on sight. Sometimes civilians were thrown into buildings, locked inside then the building would be arson'd while the civilians were inside. They mass dumped bodies in the river but then it ran red with blood and got blocked in. The army then forced civilians to go out to the edge of the city in groups to dive mass graves then would be shot/decapitated, thrown into the grave and burned. The army would loot stores then kill the owners. They would also have beheading competitions on the civilians, practicing it for "fun." The slaughter was so intense the streets and rivers of nanking literally ran red with blood. There was a few american/european/german officers at nanking at the time and formed a 2.5 mile exclusion zone to harbor civilians. That's how brutal they were, the nazi's, americans and europeans got along to stop them. Eventually, the general got better and finally showed up. He was so disgusted by their actions he called them savages, later on when talking about the events he said he felt great shame and shuttered at the brutality his soliders showed. This general also has been photographed doing beheading contest with other officers/generals so the brutality must of been significantly worse than average for the general to be appauled. He eventually killed himself in 1947 and one of the last things he was reported saying was how nanking was his biggest failure. Its estimated that anywhere from 200k-600k were killed and 80k-220k were raped during the seige.

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