Battle Of Nanjing Research Paper

The battle of Nanjing was depicted in many ways but altered throughout the years because of the argument “Is it appropriate for the ninth-grade textbook?” The battle of Nanjing was depicted as: a battle, a massacre, rape and an invasion. Through research, the answer that has arose is that it should be depicted as a massacre, it’s school appropriate and follows the facts.
“Over a period of six weeks, Imperial Japanese Army forces brutally murdered hundreds of thousands of people–including both soldiers and civilians–in the Chinese city of Nanjing” (history.com) The battle of Nanjing is the literal meaning of the word massacre. (mas·sa·cre-ˈmasəkər /noun an indiscriminate and brutal slaughter of people.”) (google)
The death toll had been so high that’s it’s numbers had to have been giving a range instead exact numbers, As stated by (history.com) There are no official numbers for the death toll in the Nanjing Massacre, though estimates range from 200,000 to 300,000 people.if this isn’t a brutal slaughtering of people, then …show more content…
When the japanese literally massacred everyone that they could, even making games of who could kill the most chineses in a certain period of time. While they were invading but it wasn't an invasion because they intended to leave nothing standing. This i why a massacre is the most appropriate. The Nanjing massacre could not have been depicted as rape even though rape was involved with the chineses women. There were about twenty-thousand rape victims that were raped repeatedly. This cannot be put into a ninth grade textbook because of the vivid details the are included in addition that they were brutally murdered after practically raped to death. These explicit details are enough alone to keep it out of the books. This is why the Rape of Nanjing is not acceptable in