The book Source of Nanking Massacre mentioned 20,000 women had been raped, 200,000 men killed on the pretext that they were ex-combatants, and 30,000 actual combatants killed. The official Chinese figure is higher, still, at 300,000 deaths.The Japanese were infuriated by the strength of Chinese resistance, and when China's Nationalist capital Nanking fell in December 1937, Japanese troops immediately slaughtered thousands of Chinese soldiers who had surrendered to them. The Japanese then rounded up about twenty thousand young Chinese men and transported them in trucks outside the city walls where they were killed in a massive slaughter. Japanese troops were then encouraged by their officers to loot Nanking,
