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    The Nanking Massacre

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    rights initiatives, especially in the 21st Century, a current example being the conflict in Syria. However, there have been numerous drawbacks in society varying throughout the world with the Nanking Massacre being an event that took an entire country into utter misery and helplessness. 1937 was a year that Nanking, China will always keep logged into memory and history due to the horrendous acts of the Japanese army and their cruel attempt to occupy the Republic of China. Because this genocide…

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    Essay On Nanking Massacre

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    Nanking Massacre When presented with the opportunity, people may find themselves committing horrible crimes if they believe they won't experience any repercussions. The Nanking Massacre proves this theory through the in-the-moment decisions of the Japanese army during their invasion of the Chinese city of Nanjing. The incident has redefined what constitutes as a war crime as an act of war that infringes on the individual rights of non-participants, as well as guided the universal methods of war…

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    The Rape of Nanking History states that Japan and China have been at war for decades. Throughout the years, the acts of violence have been gradually increasing. In 1937, the Japanese began a war that left more than 300,000 Chinese men, women, and children dead. The atrocities committed were just the beginning to a year of genocide. The Rape of Nanking will go down in history as one of the most brutal acts of bloodshed throughout all of China. During the nineteenth century, a war was fought…

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    Authority Obedience basically means compliance with an order, request, or law or submission to another's authority. Following the orders of authority blindly can have many negative effects. My Lai Massacre, Jonestown Massacre, Millgram Experiment and Nanking Massacre are some incidents that have caused negative consequences as a result of obedience to authority. My Lai Massacre took place in 1968. On the morning of March 16, 1968, soldiers of Charlie company, arrived in the hamlet of My Lai in…

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    World War Two was the most destructive war of all time. 50 million people died in the few short years that this war took place. Millions of the lives lost where civilians; people who weren’t near battle nor looking for a fight. Around the world millions of Jews, Russians, Chinese and Japanese civilians where negatively effected by the war. Much of the reasoning behind the civilian casualties during World War Two was for the greater good, and nationalism for ones country. Regardless of the…

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    is Japan, where the Rape of Nanking is an event that has been wiped clean of gruesome details that would embarrass the population and cast shame of their self-image. Michael Bess, a teacher for an undergraduate class on the topic of World War II, found that many Japanese exchange students were “wide-eyed and amazed” when they heard of the atrocities that their country had committed in Nanking (Bess, 312). Their textbooks had only noted that Japan had occupied Nanking, not that they had both…

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    Nanking Massacre Theory

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    The Nanking Massacre. The invasion of China by the Japanese before and during the World War II lasted from 1930 to 1945. During this period, the Japanese military motivated by an unconscionable wish for expansion, aggression and imperialism commited major crimes. The atrocities and brutalities committed by Japanese military ended with destruction on Japanese soil-the atomic bombing of Nagasaki and Hiroshima in 1945. The victims’ of Japanese militarists’ aggression included peace-loving and…

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    their citizens of what happened in Nanking due to shame. The government of Japan controlled most of the media so unbiased, reliable information was hard to come by. “In fact, the Japanese soldiers were always described as heroes. It was not until the postwar Tokyo Trial that the truth of the Nanking Massacre was first revealed to the Japanese civilians. The atrocities revealed during the Trial shocked the Japanese Society at the time,” (Basic Facts on the Nanking Massacre and the Tokyo War…

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    When the Holocaust is mentioned, one immediately thinks of the Jewish genocide in Europe. However, a few years prior to World War II, Japan invaded China, captured Nanking, and performed a number of cruel atrocities on the people in and around the city. This horrible event, known as the Nanking Massacre or the Rape of Nanking, included brutality that rivaled the infamous Holocaust. “Many thousands of [the women] were killed after gang rape, and...others brutally injured and traumatized.…

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    In the midst of the horrors of the Rape of Nanking, there were few individuals who were able to save many innocent lives by keeping them within the International Safety Zone. One of these individuals was the head of the Nazi party in Nanking, named John Rabe. A man who had lived in the city for 30 years, working for the Siemens China Company, and had become deeply fond of the city. During the invasion by the Japanese, Rabe had been titled the head of the Safety Zone. Throughout the time of the…

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