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One historian has estimated that if the dead from Nanking were to link hands, they would stretch from Nanking to the city of Hangchow, spanning a distance of some two hundred miles. Their blood would weigh twelve hundred tons, and their bodies would fill twenty-five hundred railroad cars. Stacked on top of each other, these bodies would reach the height of a seventy-four-story building.
It is insanse to think of the horrors we can ignore to make our lives easier, the whole world should mourn such catastrophe
“Japan’s denial of the rape of Nanjing would be politically the same as German denial of the Holocaust.”
The result was a massive terrorist campaign in 1941 designed to exterminate everyone in the northern Chinese countryside. It reduced the population there from 44 million to 25 million people.
