This terrible massacre took place two years before World War II.
In World War I, Japan’s army along with Germany fought against the Allies. The Japanese army was considered very dangerous at that time. The horror stories of the Japanese army were quite infamous.
They would kill and eat captured soldiers and use them as mannequins for practice. etcetera, etcetera. When Japan went to war with China, those stories already frightened the Chinese soldiers. What happened was that the then Chinese government accepted defeat without a fight.
The remaining soldiers left the field. What happened next is one of the world’s most gruesome massacres. The Japanese army behaved with the people of China in such a way that their hearts tremble when they hear about it. There is no limit to the massacre that Japanese soldiers created in the beautiful city of Nanjing in China.
That date was 13 December in the year 1937, when Japanese soldiers started massacre on the city of Nanjing in China. In this massacre that lasted for 6 weeks, Japan killed 3 lakh people of China. This included soldiers and a large number of civilians. The honor of 80 thousand women was looted.
At that time, Nanjing city used to be the capital of Nationalist China. Japanese soldiers turned the entire city into a cremation ground within a few days. It took decades for the city to recover from this brutality and wounds.
Chinese soldiers fled after seeing Japan’s cruelty
It is said that during the first war with China, the Japanese army caused a lot of bloodshed in Shanghai. After the victory, the Japanese army was moving forward. On the other hand, China’s leader Chiang Kai-shek was in awe.
He withdrew almost his entire army from the city of Nanjing and deployed it to protect himself and his close ones. Only those soldiers were left there who used to train the soldiers. Seeing the Japanese army coming, they also ran away. What happened was that the Japanese army was given permission to do very little with the people of China.
On December 13, 1937, Japan’s Central China Front Army entered the city of Nanjing under the command of its General Matsui Ivan. Thousands of soldiers were killed and buried en masse in graves. His brutality was not limited to soldiers only. They inflicted even more cruelty on the common people.
Thousands of families were beheaded. Raped women. This massacre continued for about 6 weeks. Piles of corpses remained in the streets of the city for months after the attack. Japanese soldiers set fire to many houses. The entire city became a cremation ground.
The exact figures of murder in Nanjing city are not available, but it is estimated that Japanese soldiers killed about 3 lakh Chinese. The Chinese government celebrates National Mourning Day every year on 13 December.