Nanjing Massacre

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    During this period, soldiers of the Imperial Japanese Army murdered disarmed combatants and Chinese civilians numbering an estimated 40,000 to over 300,000 and perpetrated widespread rape and looting.

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    The Nanjing Massacre or the Rape of Nanjing (alternately written as the Nanking Massacre or the Rape of Nanking) was an episode of mass murder and mass rape committed by Imperial Japanese troops against the residents of Nanjing (Nanking), then the capital of China, during the Second Sino-Japanese War. The massacre occurred on December 13, 1937。

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    Since most Japanese military records on the killings were kept secret or destroyed shortly after the surrender of Japan in 1945.

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    In 1946, the International Military Tribunal for the Far East in Tokyo estimated that over 200,000 Chinese were killed in the massacre.