China's Struggle To Survive During World War II | China's Forgotten War | Timeline

The world is a battlefield with Nazi Germany attempting to take over Europe, but halfway around the world another battle is taking place, China is under attack from Japan.
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[@InterestRateCoaster]

My father was a kid when Japenese entered Beijing at night in July, 1937. He was scared to death, hidding behind church doors with many others. In the next 8 years in Beijing, he witnessed countless civilians were brutally murdered by the Japanese military, a crime even until today the Japanese do not admit.

[@chinmungkuan8551]

Thanks for telling the truth

[@alemanivan3]

That's 😥

[@yuanyuan4714]

Thanks for sharing the truth.

[@truongtranthaiduy8959]

thanks

[@ayi3455]

Not that the Japanese didn't admit, but they don't want to talk about it. Every year Chinese commemorate Nanking massacre, but they deny Tiananmen massacre...

[@RohanGillett]

In Japan, you will only ever hear about Okinawa, Hiroshima and Nagasaki. It is so rare to hear about the suffering they caused other people during the war. They learned nothing from it.

[@diamondreaper1932]

not the japanese people's fault, but whoever pulls the strings in the country

[@Janhouu]

@@wederMaxim I somewhat agree. Can I ask what you mean by mentioning Finland in this context?

[@JustaRandom496]

@@diamondreaper1932 it is the Japanese fault they went to Chinas villages and grabbed baby kids adults and and burnt them alive or drowned them and they raped women killing 30k civilians

[@josueevangelista4091]

Bataan Death March

[@Free_Palestine_419]

China caused so much suffering to its own people.

[@SC-bc2yh]

When I was a kid, my grandma told me how her whole family was being slaughtered by the Japanese and only she survived. She’s 98 now

[@chenyng2970]

遥祝老人家安好。

[@missalicesmiles]

❤️❤️❤️ for your婆婆or奶奶. I can't even begin to imagine the pain and horrors she had to live through. One of my great grandma's died when I was very young and one of the distinct memories I have of her is remembering her frequently cursing the Japanese with 死日本人. Finally understood why after she passed away.

[@hello4542]

My great great grandma was also a survivor. Her dad was a Chinese doctor so his family had a pass to leave the city but she told me when she was leaving China she saw countless of dead bodies. She sadly passed away 2 days ago. My great great grandpa was a Chinese soldier they met in 1944-1945 somewhere around that time, he was a cadet. He passed away in 2018. I hope they are together 😌🕊

[@c.yamaguchi1955]

Before World War II, Thailand and Japan were the only independent countries. Westerners and Asians couldn't even eat at the same table. Don't let dogs and Chinese get in. This is an old tale of posting on the restaurant entrance door inside a Chinese colony. Asians should not forget. In the world where Westerners put the highest priority, Africans and Asians were treated as slaves. Former Prime Minister Korekiyo Takahashi was also sold to slaves in the United States at that day. World War II was an independent war in which the Colonial Chinese and Asians should fight on the front of the Western great powers. The Russo-Japanese War was an independent war in which China and Korea should work together to stand in front of Russia going south. The Sino-Japanese War was an independent war in which Korea tyrannized and had to fight against Qing. There is a country which conceals incompetence of the national rule, sloppyness, and demands compensation and ODA all because of the invasion of a Japanese army, too.

[@user-ct9lw1uk7n]

便衣兵的子孫 lol😂

[@thomasxu6999]

I am a native Shanghainese. The Japanese sphere of influence of Shanghai was very near to my home, and my grandparents still talk about the Japanese tactics in the Battle of Shanghai, and they would still show me some of the remnants of the battle, such as the SongHu railway. I often go to the Sihang Warehouse to fly drones and cycle. The Warehouse looks marvelous with all of its bullet-holes and cracks restored. There is also a movie released in 2020 called"the eight hundred" which tells the story of this battle, I would call it my favorite Chinese war movie

[@Food-Dharma]

Would like to watch this movie. Could you give me the name of the movie in Mandarin? Thanks

[@thomasxu6999]

@@Food-Dharma 八佰， The eight hundred

[@jomo2483]

Japan is a master at rewriting their history. Completely removed WW2 from their education. I bet many Japanese don't know why there are many American bases in their country

[@boshengjones1778]

There are no American bases in Japan. There is one in the country of Ryukyu islands

[@Hey-ji1pw]

@@boshengjones1778 There’s one in Fussa, western Tokyo. They gave the American troops a name called United States Forces Japan USFJ. It’s not only in Tokyo too.

[@Hey-ji1pw]

Another fact is that the day they surrendered to the US is remember as the day they lost, not that they surrendered.

[@harryhirsch8527]

If any country rewrites their history it is China..big time

[@levelazn]

​@@harryhirsch8527 i wanna see how america rewrite the 20 year afghan and iraq war.

[@lukasbauer586]

As a Canadian, I never forget this war in Asia against the Japanese. My great grandpa fought against them in Hong Kong in 1941. And he lived through his life to tell us these horrible stories. Never forget 🇨🇦❤️🇨🇳 🇭🇰

[@qinxueji]

All respect for him.

[@user-ik9xm5fl4u]

Chinese people will never forget the friends who helped them from other countries，thank your great grandpa for his efforts ！

[@chase5177]

Norman Bethune is in the textbook taught in every primary school of China.

[@lowewang2177]

Thank you very very much!

[@user-wu6tf5ns5g]

@@lowewang2177 CN= republic of china , instead of communis...t china nowadays

[@ravenking2181]

China's role in WWII is criminally underrated

[@the_birthday_skeleton]

The PLA’s role is criminally exaggerated- they fought no actual battles. They left it to the actual Chinese patriots to fight, and then attacked them after the War was over and the heroic patriots had given their all (not hid in the mountains like children and the old) only coming down to mop up the exhausted, wounded. , sick at half numbers due to their heroic home-front fighting the Japanese. The coward,rubbish-people from the PLA executed heroes who should have been in hospital not still defending bombed our positions with no food or water These true Chinese warriors and patriots who now call Taiwan home - Taiwan is true China!!! Mao and the PLA just hid in the Mountains for the entirety of WW2, and came down at the end to enslave the weary Chinese populace

[@jacobtien5331]

As a Chinese, I have never forgotten this painful history. I hate war very much. It has brought disaster to my motherland and told me that the truth is only above the peak of the sword, and self-improvement is the truth.

[@user-ct9lw1uk7n]

現在進行形で戦争起こそうとしてる国が何いってんの

[@sean7625]

It's messed up because they dont teach this in japan they did this everywhere in asia

[@Nini-lq6og]

they don't teach this in Canada either

[@MrRe-pg7fj]

Sean 762 You think they teach this in America. You have to dive deep into ww2 to know this War.

[@TsaiSigh]

Mr RE the only reason I know about this is because I’m taiwanese and I was interested in my taiwanese ancestry and I found the KMT. I found out about all this

[@nicktan4530]

@@Nini-lq6og Why ? They should

[@Nini-lq6og]

@@nicktan4530 because the federal government (I guess) deemed it not important enough that the future generations need to know this

[@user-zj4sl1oz4y]

The Japanese never apologized for their committed war crime. The Chinese never forget.

[@acecombat5586]

The chinese forgive but will not forget the cruelty of japanese nanjing massacre.

[@bezahltersystemtroll5055]

they actually apologized multiple times, but apparently it is never enough.

[@ghiorghetatarescu3649]

They didnt apologized because they dont belive they did theme wich is infurateing and the fact that lots of known war crimials where excused because they had royal blood just that no other reason

[@zp3523]

@@bezahltersystemtroll5055 lies

[@bezahltersystemtroll5055]

@@zp3523 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_war_apology_statements_issued_by_Japan you're welcome bro :)

[@Kevin-dm3dv]

Now, I am understand why Chinese military developed rapidly.

[@esplace3023]

I went to the Memorial Museum in Nanjing several years ago, as I walked through, many times I had to hide my tears, Now I realize, when I see these videos and hear the stories of the survivors, I cannot hide my tears,, nor can. not feel some anger that this is so often ignored and made out to not be important enough to acknowledged. Bless all those who suffered during this time, and bless those who tried to help

[@celine7511]

I when I read your words, my eyes are full of tears. I am a researcher on the Nanjing Massacre.

[@pseudotatsuya]

@@celine7511 If you're a researcher, you already know that Nanjing Massacre doesn't exist.

[@pseudotatsuya]

Do you know why there're no memorial museums of the cultual revolution, the tiananmen Square Incident, and invasion of tibet? The museum of Nanjing is nothing more than CCP's propaganda.

[@depanzertank6475]

Do you know theres no memorial on how the Europen countries raided, massacred, and tortured the Chinese people when they invaded China.

[@user-se4cr8ll2b]

Yes, and the Nagasaki nuclear explosion and the Hiroshima nuclear explosion did not exist. This was a conspiracy that Japan hoped to win sympathy after the war.

[@dw-fe2ww]

My thoughts go out to the Chinese people of that era. It was a horrible time, I can not fathom what it was like to endure that cruelty and the atrocities. As an American I wish to state my feelings for the Chinese people and the respect I feel for you all...

[@NatTurner328]

Do you have the same respect for Native and African-Americans?

[@basil7292]

@@NatTurner328 why would they not? silly question

[@NatTurner328]

@@basil7292 Because hypocrisy is imbued into Americans systematically through the levers of American exceptionalism.

[@bigzach7778]

@@NatTurner328 noq

[@123mrthunder]

@@NatTurner328 hypocrisy is imbued into humanity... No one is innocent.

[@aviation300x]

The Japanese that deny Nanjing, shouldn't whine about the atomic bombs... China doesn't forget like it nor does it forgive that easily.

[@bluskies1000]

China bragged they made the Mongols extinct for revenge, using cultural engineering and patience.

[@stevenwang2068]

@@bluskies1000 so they are suppose to just kill everyone like US did?

[@harryhirsch8527]

no worries...the world will not forget Tibetm the Uighurs, the Chinese Vietnam Invasion and the Corona Virus

[@stevenwang2068]

@@harryhirsch8527 how about US rapid bombing on mideast, interfering chinese korea and vietnamese civil war

[@abeu]

​@@harryhirsch8527 no worries, the world will also not forget Iraq, Syria, Afgan and, the hundreds of proxy wars CIA started, oh yea and Spanish Flu which came from USA.

[@edwardtan7283]

Back in elementary school, there was a military historian visiting and give a lecture about WWI and WWII. When people ask him which war is more disastrous he answered WWI because there are more people died. It turns out that he didn't consider the battle fought on the eastern front and in Asia.

[@alenwork2139]

My hometown is a small city in northern China. After the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, about 30,000 people participated in the war. At that time, the entire city was only about 100,000 people. That is to say, all the young men went to the battlefield. Most of them All sacrificed in this tragic war. This was a microcosm of the whole of China at that time. The Chinese hate war, but we will never give up our homeland. Only a prosperous and powerful country can have a happy life for us. This is our belief.

[@weerd44]

I feel you brother

[@user-ct9lw1uk7n]

台湾侵攻やめろ

[@why_are_you_gae6729]

@@user-ct9lw1uk7n日本 東亞之耻 虚偽之國 惡人之鄉 忘恩負義 空虚無德 當誅之

[@defjam137]

​@@user-ct9lw1uk7nI dunno bub. Taiwan is a part of China

[@zongmianli9072]

My eyes filled with tears when hearing people speaking different dialects in different accents talked about fighting with the invaders.

[@borissostrova7904]

@poortaiwanese yep, warlords, communists and nationalists all got together and the leaders were the biggest faction, mao and chiang kai shek

[@yz9236]

boris sostrova so should we not unite and just die already?

[@akma2501]

@@borissostrova7904 apart from benefit to their own country, the fight put up by china helped in the ultimate defeat of japan in world war 2. credit definitely belongs to chinese people, it does not matter whether they had warlords communists nationalists etc. particularly as it was a very backward country without a modern economy or unified government at that time.

[@theccpisaparasite8813]

@@borissostrova7904 Well Chaing anyway. Mao spent most of the war avoiding Japan except enough so he could say he did at least something. The Nationalists fought that War.

[@user-cx5jt6sl7i]

@@theccpisaparasite8813 And what do you expect? The 18GA had only about ten thousand men a troop at the beginning, without food and ammunition supplies. They even couldn't get proper uniforms to survive in the severe cold. They could only rob. I dare to say that the communist troop could have fight better and braver if they were given adequate equipments. The civil war proved it.

[@thewatcher077]

Thank you. I consider myself somewhat well read in history, but I must admit, Asia has been a blind spot. This was good info.

[@fgoogleinthea7475]

This is sensationalised rubbish, a poor historian indeed. The 'expendables' was the last straw for me. No respect for this man.

[@user-kf3zv8ps6q]

@Samhita back in the day, they said Jews are bad and no one thought it wrong. They killed Jews. In 2021, they say Chinese are bad and still, no one thinks it wrong. History repeats itself.

[@bluskies1000]

@Samhita I don't know, I already knew much of the story told, but the only "Expendables" I heard of were heroic PT Boats/crews left to fight to end in Philippines, start of the war with Japan. So now there are more "expendables". Watch the old USA "Battle of China" documentary. very similar.

[@bluskies1000]

@@user-kf3zv8ps6q Chinese people are not bad, but your government and it's ambitions is bad. Only Germany killed Jews, and everyone thought it wrong!!

[@levelazn]

​@@bluskies1000 the chinese saved many jews during WWII. the chinese government is great. if there is an election tomorrow. the chinese will vote in the same government.

[@hughiedavies6069]

I'm glad this historian has brought us this history and interviews a few survivors before it's too late. Thank you

[@tonyaliang]

My great grandpa’s first wife died because of a Japanese war crime and it’s so sad that the Japanese still do not recognize that this ever happened.

[@treystephens6166]

I like Japan 🇯🇵 because of Godzilla. The Japanese People of Today are Okay I Guess.

[@petermitchelmore2592]

There is still a lot of bitterness among all generations of Chinese, from the victims / witnesses to their great grandchildren.

[@HK1MD]

Applause. You know how we, the second generation, or baby boomers, feel about the Japanese. You think I have forgotten? I wouldn't even dare to buy anything made in Japan until my father, a former officer, died. He was forever sad for hundreds of soldiers died under his command and for witnessing the atrocities of Japanese on civilians. He was also proud of over 200 kills in hand to hand combat.

[@missalicesmiles]

@@HK1MD this exactly. If I told my two remaining great grandparents that I was going to marry someone of Japanese descent, the news alone would probably cause their deaths.

[@levelazn]

hence, when america invades other countries, china sees it as history being replayed in the imperialist narrative. can you blame china for wanting to secure the china sea to prevent western encrouchment ?

[@armedcock]

@Samhita not until Yasukuni Shrine is burned to ground

[@jjc4232]

I love my country I love my people I love China ❤️ 🇨🇳🇨🇳 I am Hong Kong Chinese and proud!!

[@irisyauinternational1802]

J JC military.wikia.org/wiki/Japanese_occupation_of_Hong_Kong

[@tylerbozinovski4624]

🇹🇼 > 🇨🇳

[@cherryandicecream4144]

same here！！

[@Chloe-dr5em]

🇨🇳

[@tylerbozinovski4624]

@@Chloe-dr5em 🇹🇼

[@yuanyuan4714]

Tearing when hearing the old grandma talking about the history. We’re lucky living in a peaceful time. Pray for human peace forever.

[@yuanyuan4714]

储有奈 I believe in CCP did does and will protect China well with weapon. All I want to do is pray.

[@grumpyrabbit1934]

As Chinese, I rarely read or watch this kind of content, because it makes me feel mentally and even physically painful. But I think we should, at least, once in our lifetime to visit that museum in Nanjing. It’s a reminder, never allowed this happen to us ever again.

[@the_birthday_skeleton]

If only you were allowed to watch this legally in your own country! Banner man Beijing Sitong bridge

[@070272kt]

Do you feel pain when anti-Japanese theater is played on TV every day?

[@tyronechao2092]

my family help write part of this history, my step father was in the KMT airforce as a fighter pilot trained with the flying tigers group. My father was a senator with Chiang and knew Deng. Watching this brought tears to my eyes. What Western countries do not understand is that by nature Chinese are relative peaceful people and the Japanese invasion taught China to NEVER let history repeat itself hence why you see China start to arm itself to the teeth today. Humans although have evolved technological wise,but, deep down most nations are still self serving and will walk all over you if you can not defend yourself. The future for China will not be about conquest but prosperity,but, some countries will see it as aggression through its own lens because this is what they know

[@boycottsouthkorea5271]

Many Westerners and Chinese say that Japan has not faced the history of invasion like Germany. However, the fact that Asia was liberated by Japan's Greater East Asia Co-prosperity Sphere is the true history that they do not want to admit.

[@AZ-hj8ym]

@@boycottsouthkorea5271 liberate your mother!!

[@user-qwertyuiopasdfghj]

@@boycottsouthkorea5271 China was never colonised by the west and was actually Asia’s first republic.

[@spinoplayz2791]

@@user-qwertyuiopasdfghj it was a half independent colonial rule nation bc it has some lands and ports under the west

[@a.azazagoth5413]

How do you feel about this comment today?

[@kimberlyannmendoza5324]

The Japanese even killed the last korean empress and some said that they raped her before they kill her.

[@shinchan-F-urmom]

What was her name? Imagine if Japan took Kim Jong Un's daughter for "comfort" He has 100 nukes

[@gazmj1400]

Ok that was in 1895, if it's the same person, she was known as Queen Min , the Japanese thought she was a threat so they had her assassinated, but if you mean empress Sunjeong, she died in 1966, 🤔 so I don't know which Empress your are talking about ,

[@harryhirsch8527]

Kimberly Ann Mendoza you look a lot like a Chinese...why dont you use your real name?

[@kimberlyannmendoza5324]

@@harryhirsch8527 hahahah I do get that a lot but I'm not chinese lol 😂

[@kangmw94]

🤧🤧😷😷

[@heatherdavie]

My father said when the Allies won the Japanese soldiers had to salute them as they were the victors, eventually the salutes got more lacksadale & were followed by the Japanese soldiers thumbing their noses. He said this meant 'You've won, for the time being!!!' Japan has NEVER apolagised or admitted its faults in WW2!!! I had an uncle in 1 of the POW camps on the Burma Railway, unlike Germany Japan refuses to acknowledge its crimes even now!!!

[@PRCpeaceTW]

Thank you for your contribution to the victory of WWII! As a Chinese, I feel sorry for you

[@unknownkingdom]

they have apologize many times

[@TheBishop12]

@@unknownkingdom you got nothing

[@070272kt]

Perhaps you wanted to tell your father that the Japanese soldiers were a war between colonial imperialists. Japanese Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama became the first Japanese prime minister to apologize for past colonial rule in 1994. This was also an apology for the former imperialist country's first colonial rule. In 1995, Prime Minister Murayama issued the Murayama Statement, officially apologizing for past wars of aggression and colonial rule, based on a cabinet decision. After the Japanese prime minister apologized, the British prime minister and royal family also apologized for the "Amritsar massacre" against India and the slave trade in Africa. After the Murayama statement, however, claims spread in the Western media, especially among Chinese and Koreans, that Japan never apologized for its past war crimes.

[@tonyaliang]

@@unknownkingdomno they have not. They have only apologized to the us and they didn’t even get charged for their war crimes because the us wanted their “experiment results” from unit 731 and they wanted japans help in fighting the SOVIETS WHO HELPED THE US and who single handedly pushed back Germany and the us just hated them now because their governments didn’t align exactly. Ah, why is the us so bad?!?

[@user-sq4yd4lv6f]

国民党抗日的功勋不可被抹杀！感谢每一个为保卫领土和中华文明而奋斗的英烈和英雄们，缅怀每一个无辜死亡的亡魂。

[@terryhe5590]

说得好！不管国民党，共产党还是名间的抗日武装，都是值得铭记的英烈与英雄。没有他们的付出与牺牲哪里还有如今的中国。

[@c.yamaguchi1955]

The rule of Japan is the country with the lowest disparity between rich and poor in the world. A country of people who respect justice and reject crime, lies, fraud and fakes. A country of bushido spirit of justice. If Japan's reign had continued, your GDP per capita would have developed well beyond that of Taiwan and South Korea. Some countries have become independent and bad.

[@c.yamaguchi1955]

China divides its people into party members, city citizens, and rural areas. Even now, it is discrimination against the status system.　They cut off information that is inconvenient to the Communist Party China is not a democratic country. China is still a colonialist dictatorship.　 A country that sprinkles shame on the world of false lies fabrication.

[@enshuozhang7545]

@@c.yamaguchi1955 真他妈的好笑

[@bruhtnt4258]

@@enshuozhang7545 +1

[@Reezy37]

I can see why China has made such a determined effort to create the massive military and economy it has today. It doesn't want to find itself in a position of vulnerability again like in the 1930s and 1940s. Obviously if Japan tried to invade China today they would get wiped out by the Chinese navy and air force. No need to send in the army I think much of Japan's forces would be devastated by air and naval attacks before Japan found itself occupied by Chinese forces. The Chinese resistance to Japanese oppression during that horrible time is truly incredible.

[@scrumcouscake4454]

Reezy37 Yeah.............if china got invaded again china would proceed to bomb tokyo and all of japan after defeating japans army.

[@scottgeorge4268]

@Fabian Kirchgessner Have you been asleep for 60 years?

[@KaiXue-yo4kf]

Fabian Kirchgessner he mean the army nowadays, not during war...

[@KaiXue-yo4kf]

Fabian Kirchgessner also they didn’t invade India, India try to grab something from China because they see China as a weak neighbor since China just came out of 2 war.

[@yucol5661]

While modern geopolitics are not the same as 80 years ago. I think its idealistic to think that Chinese leaders care much about what happened in WW2. It just didn’t affect their modern day reality. Japan is not going to invade, why in the world would they ever? The situation is not the same at all

[@jnlie]

My heart seriously goes out to my Chinese ancestors. Great upload though.

[@hwasiaqhan8923]

Fail Zero Chinese didn’t slaughter the tibetans, the Chinese themselves are getting slaughtered by the CCP with one child policy, 35 million Chinese died during the reign of Mao.

[@justinlim1580]

Fail Zero dude, that is the ccp, this is about the Chinese getting slaughtered...

[@hansenyan6217]

@Fail Zero people?

[@Kuro-wb8ue]

@Fail Zero You clearly don't know that. Han Chinese are the majority and they suffered and been through a lot more than minority.

[@Eshayzbra96]

@@hwasiaqhan8923 the ccp get way too much credit for WW2. In reality, the majority of the people getting killed were not Maoists. The CCP however likes to take credit for the fact that many Chinese Nationalist soldiers died, while the communists were not nearly as big at this point.

[@04211975]

survivor stories and scene starting at 11:45 are so sad. You can see the fear and sorrow on the faces of those being buried alive. also, the mother crying over dead man and the child trying to drag her away is so heartbreaking.

[@bladeedgceo3703]

German trained KMT troops held the line for 3 months in Shanghai. My great Uncle Major ( later Colonel) Kloss was sent to China to train chinese troops.

[@bladeedgceo3703]

@Selalu Belajar stfu

[@jotarothedixieboo3435]

Us chinese folks thank ur uncle Kloss for his service! His service contributed alot to saving the chinese ppl

[@donchen1581]

Yep in this case Chinese and KMT troops have to thank german

[@SamHsia_08]

🇹🇼🤝🇩🇪

[@vivienilla0220]

This was discussed to us months ago as I’m an international relations student and I can’t imagine how they survived after the war. The war brought massive destruction 💔

[@maarten9272]

Surviving three bayonet wounds is very impressive for an eight year old.

[@rxyvnn]

It’s an brutal and scary experience 😦

[@fongbit]

Indeed. Mathematically speaking, imagine how many 8 years old they stabbed so one could survive.

[@steviejohnson378]

which i find highly unbelievable

[@dimelo3027]

@@steviejohnson378 And you Hong Kongie believe 99 people were killed by the police in the Prince Edward Station in 2019.

[@steviejohnson378]

@Goosa Poosa yes an eight year old got stabbed three times with a bayonet and survived without any major blood loss? How much does the CCP pay you to post garbage? 50 cents?

[@photoafterthenankingbattle1854]

D) George Ashmore Fitch (American 1883-1979) was a employed adviser of Chiang Kai-shek in Nanking.

[@ethan5709]

To understand modern China and all its issues, you have to understand our memory of WW2 or the taught memory which isn’t that far off. The fear of being invaded or going into civil war - and losing millions very much preys on the mind.

[@Jarod-vg9wq]

I hope people in japan especially the young generation are learning somehow about what they did back then in China.

[@jsshadow-lurker5152]

They don't have to. In fact, teach them this and it would probably just fuel their will to stand taller.

[@jsshadow-lurker5152]

@_ Essketit link me facts. Don't just make stuff up.

[@jsshadow-lurker5152]

@_ Essketit Yeah? What part says that they didn't know they were at war? That's quite stupid.

[@joshi3518]

Why is it relevant? Though all countries have killed millions brutally get over it.

[@hengzheng5813]

@@joshi3518 yea killed million then glorify it, nice Japanazi 😂

[@svlagonda7417]

Absolutely fascinating documentary, really well made and with really high production values. Well done to those who put that together!

[@thomaswoo6276]

As a Chinese, I am astonished by the fact that many ppl across the world don't know this part of history. Denying history is also denying the history creator themselves, along with their culture. I truly hope we, human beings, can move on and love each other in any way, especially political way.

[@bluskies1000]

Not many care about history, especially someone else's.

[@harryhirsch8527]

@Esoterique stop spreading lies Chinaboy The Japanese apologized several times...China choose to ignore it so they can lie on about it.

[@poyapryougi3922]

​@@harryhirsch8527 No, Japanese has never apoligized for what they have done in China, don't trust any Western news and Japanese news, hope u can be a person who can think independently instead of trust what u heard from any foolish news.

[@lostcause4728]

try Tiananmen 1989.

[@thomaswoo6276]

@@lostcause4728 what do you mean? no politics is "clean". I think students back in 1989 were instigated by foreign politicians for dividing the country. And what China did do is for the best of the country. They didn't kill all students. Just watch the so-called interviews of those student leaders, and you can tell the lies.

[@menie4823]

If you're wondering why Japan stands firmly with US on China affairs, it is mostly out of fear.. Although denying it, Japan knows exactly what it did to China.

[@minitetourou8744]

Because in Asia, Japan has few allies, even enemies of their country

[@davidradtke160]

Alternatively, they remember the US nukes. Or they prefer to stand with other Democratic countries after Tibet and Hong Kong.

[@scopulih8658]

Great video. Thanks for these people of making this precious documentory

[@jingjieong2260]

If I might offer a cultural perspective. The experience of the Japanese occupation in China is still very much within living memory of many Chinese families. Our grandparents lived the occupation and atrocities, our parents lived the social and economic fall out it caused, and we (the Millenials and later) are only now living in much relative comfort from any of the effects of war (how lucky we truly are). This is why when asked to "move on", it is often confusing. The issue many Chinese face with Japan is not with its people (any one with some research in history would know the Japanese people were victims of the ww2 regime), it is also morally incorrect to demand the Japanese today to repent for what the transgressions of their ancestors. The issue is that the same Japanese leadership that green-lighted the atrocities in the 20th century, is very much the same government in power in Japan today, at least at a lineage level, and cultural underpinning level.

[@hefeibao]

Yup. My wife's grandfather was killed by the Japanese in WWII. She still talks about it bitterly. A big part is Japanese never apologizing either.

[@6Euphoria6]

they could've just announce those who are guilty guilty and deem them criminals.

[@lolfang5725]

@@hefeibao 日本人太会道歉了，但他们除了道歉什么也不做

[@hefeibao]

@@lolfang5725 完全

[@steviejohnson378]

Do Chinese learn about Mao's actions? He killed more Chinese than Japan.

[@photoafterthenankingbattle1854]

3) -Mao Zedong's conversation with American journalist Edgar Snow, 1970 Mao Zedong's communists were on the retreat across China from the Republic of China until Japan's timely intervention saved him. The Republic of China's military suffered over 3 million casualties from their best trained and equipped units fighting Japan, as well as over 20 million civilian deaths. The Republic of China was obligated (even though Chiang Kai Shek stalled as long as he could as he considered other Chinese greater threats than Japan) to defend her civilians against invaders which meant pitched battles in urban environments against the brunt of Japanese mechanized forces, while Mao Zedong could afford to retreat into the countryside and fight a guerrilla war ambushing small groups of Japanese soldiers. By the time the Japanese Empire was defeated, Mao had regained his strength (thousands of Japanese who surrendered were even recruited to Mao's forces) and finished off the weakened Republic.

[@kirklandday]

Lmao good try rewriting history. The imperialists worked with the ROC to try to destroy them first, since plenty of the oligarchs from both countries would've preferred to see any result other than a successful workers uprising. Now the the rightful Chinese government has a 90% approval rating, as sourced from the imperialist propaganda news itself. Cope and seethe, imperialist.

[@photoafterthenankingbattle1854]

@@kirklandday Can you Korean surely read and understand English document " THE IWG REPORT" of USA government ? The so famous ,world-widely well-known USA Government's final and official report about IJA( Imperial Japan's Army) in the WW2 named " THE IWG REPORT " that was publicly issued in USA in 2007 wasting so huge amount of USA Tax money(30 million US Dollars) and 8 years and 7 million historic documents due to strong requests from the Communist Hans and the Korean living in USA finally concluded USA Government could not find any war crimes of IJA in the WW2 in spite of many propagandas by Communist Hans, Hans from Communist China and and the Korean descendants not only in USA/Canada but also in Australia/Germany/France/Communist China 2 Koreas ( South & North),Japan and other nations in the world with no real and concrete historic evidences and proofs.

[@aloysiusttlvideo]

@@kirklandday Only after the current Chinese government abandoned all the economic principles and beliefs of their founder, lol!

[@harimaumalaya9146]

we can accept apologies but forget it is impossible what the Japanese did to us. it will remain in the history of our country🇲🇾😭

[@reddawn1873]

Remember what the British did you Malaysia emergency Chemical weapons Isolation what not Although I might be mistaken And you use the other flag the City one

[@reddawn1873]

@Celtic Bhoy On the backs of forced labour and concentration camps One right does not Correct The British's wrong Did I mention the use of chemical weapons on Malaysian natives

[@reddawn1873]

@Celtic Bhoy what can't counter my argument

[@reddawn1873]

@Celtic Bhoy Say your Malaysian emergency didn't happen And that Winston Churchill did not Put people of different colour into concentration camps

[@destubae3271]

@Celtic Bhoy It's actually true. Look up "Malayan Emergency"

[@photoafterthenankingbattle1854]

The USA's ship " Panay" was transferring bullets and weapons to Chiang Kai-shek's Army that escaped from Nanking to Chongging.

[@photoafterthenankingbattle1854]

E) Lewis Strong Casey Smythe (American 1901-1978) was a employed adviser of Chiang Kai-shek and Harold John Timperley.

[@hl1234561]

向抗日战争中牺牲的先烈致敬！我们不会让这种事再发生在中国的土地上，永远不会！！

[@sini0071]

只望这生内能千万倍丰还

[@s.chuang4469]

@@sini0071 簡單來個赤納粹

[@whatyeah2032]

@@s.chuang4469 塔绿班今天打高端了么，哭哭

[@s.chuang4469]

@@whatyeah2032 我不否認抗日的努力，但難道要在八十年後的今天在一個從軍國主義大日本帝國中被盟軍改造的現代日本搞一個東京大屠殺嗎？

[@qiliwei5219]

@@s.chuang4469 个别人口号喊得欢实你真当东京大屠杀会成真？

[@rainx711]

I am a Chinese from Nanjing.My grand grandfather survived from the war, he never told me about the details about that war, he just told me when he was a kid, he and his family move to a place far away from the city, because of this my grand grandfather and his family escaped from the massacre. I dont want ask any other things about the war, I dont want he remember the memory about that.......

[@kirklandday]

Nothing can justify the suffering the imperialists put on the Chinese people. Now is different though, and China will not be humiliated in these following centuries as it was the previous ones. China has always been strong but the world is just recently being forced to recognize that fact.

[@dariomendoza1518]

i love you CHINA greetings from Mexico!!!

[@user-td3se5jq1w]

Gracias amigo. Thank you for liking my country.

[@user-xq7zw2ur4w]

We love you back.

[@truth9758]

Thank you, friend.

[@kishekadrians4d03chan8]

Republic of China

[@kishekadrians4d03chan8]

@@user-td3se5jq1w although I am from Hong Kong but I am very proud of my nation, including the communists in the war of resistance

[@robertschoukh2941]

21) 6.Recognizing that women world-wide bear a disproportionate share of the consequences of armed and other international conflict, and that violence against Tibetan women is the result of the PRC's continuing occupation of Tibet, we further recommend that the PRC immediately withdraw its troops and support personnel from Tibetan and that the PRC cease the population transfer of Chinese people into Tibet.

[@photoafterthenankingbattle1854]

C) Miner Searle Bates(American 1897-1978) was a employed adviser of Chiang Kai-shek in Nanking.Bates was awarded medals two times during and after the WW2 by Chiang Kai-shek.

[@von24601]

感谢您分享这一段惨痛的历史记忆 Thanks for share it

[@zzzhankzzz3572]

Many thanks to this documentary!

[@alien0715]

Thanks for sharing this video. No one in China has forgotten this war.

[@harryhirsch8527]

and the world will not forget Tibet the Uighurs, the Chinese Vietnam Invasion and the Corona Virus

[@eaz3880]

@@harryhirsch8527 keep crying. you are very brainwashed

[@stefchris2067]

@@harryhirsch8527 what about the american invasion

[@RuthlessDestroyer]

@@harryhirsch8527 how are any of those relevant

[@toyotasupra174]

@@stefchris2067 whatabout soviet and indian invasion

[@gj3933]

Thank you for the documentary.

[@rockycheny5437]

China has been bullied by the imperial powers for too long, and that is why its people will not respond well to "sanctions" forced upon them. China has been making a huge effort to modernize and to earn a respectable position in the international community. The remarkable development of China in the recent years has been the result of the diligence and ingenuity of its people, not through colonization, invasion, wars, conquests, etc.

[@irisyauinternational1802]

rocky cheny all those unequal treaties... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Nanking

[@user-pg5dl5nz2v]

Thank you ! Those heros are never forgotten!

[@shihouneon]

The heroes legacy will never be forgotten, we will continue to preserve peace and prosperity, and lead Asia out of injustice American influence!

[@wjun0131]

Except if you were a Gongmindang soldier, then you are well forgotten.

[@harryhirsch8527]

heros....mauauaha good one

[@the_birthday_skeleton]

This video cannot be watched legally in China! So they will be forgotten until Xi Jinping takes his foot off the necks of the Chinese people and sets them Free

[@odina3688]

Waiting for part 2. Excellent video.

[@ryanfrost7348]

Wow that’s great presentation, filmography and soundtrack :)

[@mucjwt8550]

Thank you Mr. Pro. Rana Mitter for unfolding this history with so many astonishing yet vivid details which me as a Chinese was not familiar with myself.

[@stoneh2ovino]

Frankly, this guy didn't have to find one person to talk about the Nanjing Massacre, Iris Chang already wrote thoroughly about this and the Memorial Hall in Nanjing fully documents the atrocity. When he says "Some people say this massacre never happened..." he should not be giving these people so much credibility. The only Nanjing Massacre deniers are ultra-right-wing Japanese and nobody takes them seriously. It might be nice if some of these academic folks were to give proper credit to the people who have already done the work they claim to be doing now.

[@irisyauinternational1802]

stoneh2ovino 👍

[@Time4Peace]

Each team of researchers have their own research sources. It's always good to have different studies done to look from different angles of the same tragic event.

[@joaodelgado6696]

@@Time4Peace the problem is with the presentation here. they are talking like this is an obscure event that they are at the forefront of uncovering new info but this is a pretty widely known event all across the world, especially in Asia and China, you cant walk though CHina without knowing about Japanese atrocities especially in Jiangsu region, these documentary people are going to a huge museum dedicated to Nanjing Massacre like its an obscure thing its kinda stupid. to make an anaology imagine someon went to the HOlocasut Museum and claimed taht they had to go find someone to talk abuot the Holocaust because there are so many "Deniers" out there, its ridiculous, the deniers are fringe radical propagandist groups not status quo at all

[@Time4Peace]

@@joaodelgado6696 Agreed that he did not elaborate further on the deniers, who really are the rightwing Japanese and this information about the atrocities is denied to much of the Japanese population as a result. The title of the video itself about the forgotten war suggests that the target audience (western countries) not familiar with China's history.. But to China, and many other countries which were victims, that war of aggression is never forgotten. Without disagreeing with your point, I think the documentary is useful in educating a specific audience.

[@forge16hanadamaintenancedr43]

This is a better way... Remember how westerners referred to all written materials from China as "propaganda"?

[@choomenglee2404]

My late uncle my mother's younger brother fought against the Japanese from 1939 to 1945 came back to Penang in 1949 after the China - Burma Road campaign as a colonel of the Koumingtang National army

[@Wolverine999]

As a Chinese, I will never forget the crime and the evil act committed by the Japanese in WWII. I still don't forgive them as they owe our ancestors an apology.

[@shamarmays3577]

Ones ancestors doesn’t owe another ancestors apology for something they didn’t commit

[@yeeyourlasthaw2803]

Remember the Americans forced an existential threat against the country of Japan with the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. I think that's the price of justice. To stop the brutality of war, the horror of the atomic bomb had to be shown. I hope the atrocities of ww2 never happen again.

[@ThatUnusualNationalist]

@@yeeyourlasthaw2803Japan deserved that though.

[@Ai-ry1cm]

Thank you for the documentary

[@yoeltogarmikael3278]

the fact that many people forget it, deny it, and call it CCP propaganda is wow just WOW

[@lucasbishop8437]

Japan had no conscience during the war

[@pykemid3954]

straight savage mode no regard for life real warrior samurai shjit lmfao

[@code_decisive9058]

@michael boultinghouse Proof? Remember those bombings and countless pointless invasions by the USA, the land of freedom? Remember Syria? And Iraq? USA should fix its own mistakes before screeching about China's(if China even has those same mistakes) There is a Chinese Idiom called: 五十步笑百步. Search it up. It describes USA's stance on China perfectly.

[@code_decisive9058]

@michael boultinghouse Not really, Russia is stronger than the USSR, but you can't compare a power 30 years ago to one now. Thing is, if the Chinese are itching to throw a revolution, then why are 95% of them are pleased with the government? The Chinese don't want a democracy. They just want a government that works. If its democratic, great. If its Authoritarian, great. Seriously, you should try to visit China yourself. Plus, the US has very heavy trade with China. PS I don't live in China ;)

[@code_decisive9058]

@michael boultinghouse The US now is considerably stronger than the US 30 years ago.

[@kiana_kaslana12]

@@code_decisive9058 you probably don't know what the CCP is

[@pratibhasingh7684]

Incredible documentary !

[@antihistoricignorantkorean5676]

3) Here's Mao Zedong telling the Prime Minister of Japan to take back his apology "(Japan) doesn't have to say sorry, you had contributed towards China, why? Because had Imperial Japan did not start the war of invasion, how could we communist became mighty powerful? How could we stage the coup d'état? How could we defeat Chiang Kai Shek? How are we going to pay back you guys? No, we do not want your war reparations!" -Mao Zedong greeting Japanese Prime Minister Kakuei in Nanjing, 1972 Here's Mao praising Japan's contribution to his war effort "Those Japanese were real good. Without Japanese's help, China's [Communist] revolution would not have suceeded. I said the same thing to a Japanese, a capitalist, by the name of nanxiang sanlang(?).He kept on saying: 'Sorry, we did invade China' I said to him: 'Don't say that, on the contrary, Japanese helped us (Communist) in a big way', especially Japanese warlords and the Japanese Emperor."

[@leesimage]

感謝製作團隊和主持人的用心！

[@harryhirsch8527]

nope

[@riturajsuman8833]

Very sad to know about this ... love from India ...

[@code_decisive9058]

Harsh truths about reality....

[@jermasus]

Hope China and India can reconcile

[@chenxing6157]

to be fair, every single Chinese solider who stood against the fascist Japan is hero,whether communist or nationalist.

[@user-uy7qg3ot4n]

To be fair? Let's talk about fair, the communists raided Nationalist warehouses and turned civilians against the Nationalist government during the war. They stole weapons and tanks from those warehouses and ordered peasents to farm for them while troops on the eastern front were starving. They held the largest border with Japan since the beginning of the war yet Japan left behind a small and weak holding force. The communists barely did anything in the war but get stronger while the Nationalist lost strength actually defending China as best they can. Later after the Chinese Civil war the CCP sent war veterans of the Nationalists left behind or switched sides to die in the korean war. They forced them to run themselves dry into the American and allied divisions.

[@user-fn8nh1cu5v]

@@user-uy7qg3ot4n You're lying. Every paragraph is. Go and find out what "皖南事变" is. Jiang is the criminal who secretly attacked the Communist army and gave land to the Japanese.

[@user-uy7qg3ot4n]

@@user-fn8nh1cu5v You Wumaos really need to try harder. Either way, the CCP will fall soon enough. If Sun Wen can bring down the Qing, we can bring down a bunch of race traitors.

[@user-fn8nh1cu5v]

@@user-uy7qg3ot4n Hahaha, the original narrative history is "Wu Mao"? Who has the final say can only be decided by our Chinese. Now it seems that some people who flee to Taiwan will be eliminated by history first. Then there is the problem of the Communist Party. Take care of yourself and don't escape from reality.:D

[@user-kj7kx7hn7y]

A nation that can’t admit the fault will eventually suffer the fall.

[@pupa13]

@michael boultinghouse I am from Xinjiang. Where is the genocide? So funny

[@FatIntellectual]

@michael boultinghouseWell thanks for pointing out a completely different matter to everyone. Whether people cares about China's current wrongdoings or not, it has little relevancy to this video - the display of all the suffering that innocent civilians experienced during Japan's invasion. Just because China does extremely disgusting and hypocritic things today does not signify that we should forget the events of the Sino War because of their 'ultimate hypocrisy'. This is honestly why the human race is so pathetic... And unfortunately what you are doing right now is instigating further conflict within this world... If your logic were to be applied to other parts of the world, oh then trust me, people will no longer commemorate the Holocaust because of Israel's inhumane actions right now, or WWII completely because of the western world's sins. *sigh*

[@harryhirsch8527]

no worries...the world will not forget Tibet the Uighurs, the Chinese Vietnam Invasion and the Corona Virus The Japanese apologized several times...China choose to ignore it so they can lie on about it.

[@shixiongwang6607]

32 yo Chinse here who dropped tears while watching this. Really nice editing, nice efforts. Appreciate it a lot!

[@harryhirsch8527]

yep..nice piece of propaganda that the CCP payed for

[@Elitial]

@@harryhirsch8527 stupid troll

[@ThatOneGuyFromIdaho]

Seriously, no one mentions the bravery of "The Expendables" who only numbered around 100 men or so!?! These men single handily helped give the Chinese a rare victory USING SWORDS! WTF!?!?! ABSOLUTE LEGENDS ALL OF THEM! Mad respect from the U.S.A, and learning about China's history during this time period.

[@xk6828]

The expendables are not a single group of people. It is the name for any group of soldiers that volunteer to do tasks that are very likely to get you killed.

[@bruhtnt4258]

They were still Axis tho. I don’t think we should praise them.

[@nni9310]

Thank you for posting this.

[@photoafterthenankingbattle1854]

CHINESE DESERTERS FOND WITH REFFUGEES IN U.S. NANKING CAMP [ 1938 : By the New York Times.] SHANGHAI, Jan. 3.- American professors remaining at foreign members of the refugee welfare committee were seriously embarrassed to discover that they had been harboring a deserting Chinese army colonel and six of his subordinate officers. The Chinese officers, who had doffed their uniforms during the Chinese retreat from Nanking, were discovered living in one of the college buildings. They confessed their identity after Japanese army searchers found they had hidden six rifles, five revolvers and a dismounted machine gun and ammunition in the building. The deserters confessed looting in Nanking and also that one night they dragged girls from the refugee camp into the darkness and the next day blamed Japanese soldiers for the attacks. The ex-officers were arrested under martial law and probably will be executed.

[@bakerstreet101]

Nice work. It must have been a monumental effort to reconstruct the events of the war.

[@theunthinkable1021]

What they did to the Philippines was actually unforgiving. Within few years, Americans were going to leave but the Japanese came.

[@code_decisive9058]

@michael boultinghouse Japan wasn't better than the USA.

[@missalicesmiles]

Who knew that a bald white dude could be such a troll?🖕

[@robertschoukh2941]

13) "I am in prison but I have no regrets My country has not been sold:[it has been stolen] For that we have shed so many tears Oh so many tears!" These songs were recorded, and then the cassettes were circulated underground. When officials discovered the recordings, the nuns' sentences were doubled or tripled. One nun's term extended from 9 to 17 years as a result. On June 3, 1994, one of the nuns, Phuntsog Yangkyi, died in a prison hospital from injuries inflicted by prison officials.

[@user-yy6mt1zi5s]

My grandfather's father fought in the battle of Taierzhuang and died there

[@c.yamaguchi1955]

China divides its people into party members, city citizens, and rural areas. Even now, it is discrimination against the status system.　They cut off information that is inconvenient to the Communist Party China is not a democratic country. China is still a colonialist dictatorship.　 A country that sprinkles shame on the world of false lies fabrication.

[@c.yamaguchi1955]

Mao Zedong said. He won the civil war with the help of thousands of Japanese prisoners of war with Japanese weapons left in Manchuria. And said the timely big help of invasion by Japanese army when he was cornered by Chiang Kai-shek army. World War II was a war for China and Asians to take the initiative in fighting on the front lines of western countries. The Russo-Japanese War was a war for China and South Korea to fight on front the Russian.　Russia greedily plunders southern territory. Russia is the same now. Manchuria and east of Mount Urals was mongolian land, not China nor Russia. It was Japan that, with the help of the Uk-Japan Alliance, prevented Russia from advancing into Manchuria and South Korea. China is hated in the world today. When we look at the wage difference between uighur, inner Mongolia, the poverty of Tibet, Beijing, Shanghai, coastal areas and rural, You will see a bad capitalist country China.　The Japan should have helped Chiang kai-shek army? Is China really a reliable friend for Asian countries?

[@user-fz7xs2xl8s]

I remember that my mother once told me that foreigners in Nanking tried to save Chinese citizens, and they built a hospital. That hospital now belongs to Nanking university, China’s best university after the revolution/civil war, and if I remember correctly, it’s still there. (Feel free to correct me if something is wrong.) Edit: Guo JingXing’s Chinese, I can tell he is from the north, people still speak like that in Beijing, you can tell where they’re from by their accent and dialogues.

[@irisyauinternational1802]

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Magee_(missionary)

[@irisyauinternational1802]

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Rabe

[@irisyauinternational1802]

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Good_Man_of_Nanking

[@user-fz7xs2xl8s]

Iris Yau 👌

[@oscarchute5702]

There was a German priest who saved thousands of Chinese in his compound. His name is John Rabe. There is a movie about this. Thank you for your humanitarian act.

[@sebastianzet590]

and Japanese government still proud of this war crimes around east asia

[@irisyauinternational1802]

#Facism

[@tylerbozinovski4624]

@@irisyauinternational1802 #youcannotspellproperly

[@jakekgope1061]

@michael boultinghouse same as America is proud of its war crimes across the middle East

[@code_decisive9058]

@michael boultinghouse Stop denying america and Japans atrocities! OMG

[@destubae3271]

@michael boultinghouse What's your point? Can't people criticize both actions?

[@yzlfc95]

Major sacrifices during Ww2 that was under appreciated were the Chinese lost of around 20 million lives holding back japanese in the vast territories and the 26 million lives lost of Soviets breaking down the German war machine

[@yzlfc95]

@Pinochet's Chopperpilot you have no idea about world history lol communist china didn't form properly until the end of civil war which was AFTER World War 2. Must be the weight of those extra chromosomes holding you down

[@toyotasupra174]

Soviets are bad germans are good

[@CaptainLegionary]

My great grandfather fought as a captain in the nationalist army. He survived the war and lived to the age of 89.

[@crisochoa1197]

I found this video very informative, Thank you to everyone who worked on producing this documentary. I hope Xia Shuqin, Wang Zhong, and li Jingshan have found some peace after this horrific war. Love and Peace from California.

[@allen2770]

China gave many gifts of knowledge and technology to Asia and the world. Yes they were not perfect but they traded with us in the past and taught many other people things like the ways of cooking, rice planting, livestock and many more. My country being one of the country in which the Chinese gave knowledge. But when China was being invaded and slaughtered we weren't able to help them in their 100 years of humiliation. May you forgive us too for our country was also colonized by the Europeans.😢 Sorry for my bad English. I'm southeast Asian btw.

[@Crashed131963]

All that left of Victorious China is Taiwan .

[@davideasterwood5844]

Most who died were nationalist, those are the people who left for Taiwan, this is the reason the Communist won the civil war in China in the end because they stayed out of most the fighting with the Japanese!

[@Johntgz]

@@davideasterwood5844 your stupidity is on another level.

[@minitetourou8744]

We all share common suffering, may our country become stronger and stronger in the future

[@chandlerma6964]

thanks for sharing this

[@vacysmotuzas4267]

Thanks for educating me regarding this war fact ...

[@jianweishen2944]

It's just forgotten in the west but it's never forgotten by anyone in China.

[@thatweirdguywhostalkspeopl1908]

my great-grandfather fought in the front lines and my great-grandmother was a nurse in this war, and both of them died a few years ago. I really regret not asking them to tell me their experiences.

[@vathybadarma2063]

History does not change and should not be forgotten. R.I.P.

[@harryhirsch8527]

bla bla

[@kabukikommandofourthworld5266]

Weeb avatar? Yeah, you should never be taken seriously. 🤣🤣🤣

[@deltahedge2783]

Thank you!

[@sutonomardi4445]

All China people are very disappointed to realize that Hirohito not hang like Hideki Tojo

[@yucol5661]

To be realistic, most of the victims probably didn’t care. Too busy rebuilding their life’s and surviving the future famines, conflicts and tragedies

[@TheSilverExperience]

Yussef nah they’re too busy in the civil war

[@tylerbozinovski4624]

He was allowed to live specifically because he was the Emperor. Removing him would probably cause an uprising of some kind.

[@gerald1495]

to be fair he was mostly just a puppet of the military who wanted the war

[@user-tc9bo7zq1b]

Capital Punishment is never a solution, but a concession

[@photoafterthenankingbattle1854]

7) But Tang fails to understand how anyone anywhere can convince themselves ‘that they are just eating an organism when they are actually eating a dead body.’ ‘It may not be a formed human being, but when they think about it most people would think: ‘Ugh! No, I can’t eat that.’ I don’t think civilized people with an education could do that sort of thing.’ Dr. Wong, a Hong Kong doctor who practices Western medicine, thinks only the ignorant would eat human foetuses. He explains that foetuses contain mucoploysaccharide, which is beneficial to the metabolism, but states that it can be found in a lot of other food - Chinese doctor Chu Ho-Ting agrees that there is no place for foetuses in medicine, and suggests that it might even be unhealthy if the pregnant woman was infected by disease. ‘Most bacteria can be killed under 100 degree heat but some require 400 degrees. Some people believe eating foetuses can strengthen the immunity of the human body against diseases, but this is wrong. Although foetuses contain protein, they are not as nutritious as placenta, which contains different kinds of nutrients. But even placenta has to be taken with other Chinese herbs.’ Hong Kong Eastern Express, 12 April 1995.

[@hanssolos3699]

imma history buff n snob. this is the best channel for modern history. always love the entire program packaging.

[@NL-eu6si]

I am glad the story is told by an Oxford scholar. The west world/public, particularly people in Japan have been skeptical, some even and still deny it when Chinese scholars tried for decades to unveil this painful part of the history.

[@shzarmai]

how?? Japan is literally the only one who denies this, smh

[@applepie4287]

@@shzarmai My man has never meet a hardcore weeaboo.

[@ronaldhee6608]

Great stuff. When's Part 2?

[@diamondtran8331]

Excellent journalism!

[@harryhirsch8527]

Tran? Trans?

[@johnrowland5874]

To understand China today, a review of history is in order. The 150 Years of Humiliation and being attacked by Japan in the 1930's & 1940's, border wars with India and Russia in the 1950's (continuing to today) and 1960's why wouldn't they want to protect themselves and increase their military presence?

[@shermanfirefly5410]

Also the humiliation of 1990s, during which Nato forces bombarded Chinese embassy in Yugoslavia, leading to the nation wise protests

[@ljystu9285]

My heart is with those who suffered from WW2 in Europe, but it is a very heartbreaking fact that nowadays people tend to forget the horrible things Japanese did to China and rest of East and South East Asia. We shall never forget about the chemical weapons, human body experiments, and slaughters happened in China during WW2.

[@puxm3952]

Yuhuatai(雨花台)Martyr's Cemetery(雨花台烈士陵园) ,Nanjing was founded by Mao Zedong in 1950 at Nanjing. During 1927-1949(the republican era) the area was used for the execution of traitors. It is thought that over 100,000 communists were killed here by Chiang Kai-shek In 1950 it became a memorial for the revolutionary martyrs. Mao Zedong wrote on the monument more than 300 thousands Communist Chinese were massacred by Ching Kai-shek as below-死難烈士万歳 国民党政府在雨花台曽経屠殺了三十万共産党烈士 - The number of victims was 300 thousand is quite the same of the present so called the fake and fabricated Nanking Massacre Museum in Nanking now. Very doubtful and strange to accuse Japan with so called fake and Fabricated fraud.

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Many intelligent viewers here except for a world historic ignoramus like you world historic ignoramus already know following real historic facts and evidences each other. So could you explain or tell us intelligent viewers your opinion about following real historic facts and evidences with your so called world historic knowledge or historic evidences ? Didn't you know at all till now in your whole life there were 5 Nanking Massacres by the Han race each other from 1850s till 1949 in China ?

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@@localextremist2839 Is USA government an ultranationalist too ? Can you read and understand English documents well and correctly ? The so famous ,world-widely well-known USA Government's final and official report about IJA( Imperial Japan's Army) in the WW2 named " THE IWG REPORT " that was publicly issued in USA in 2007 wasting so huge amount of USA Tax money(30 million US Dollars) and 8 years and 7 million historic documents due to strong requests from the Communist Hans and the Korean living in USA finally concluded USA Government could not find any war crimes of IJA in the WW2 in spite of many propagandas by Communist Hans, Hans from Communist China and and the Korean descendants not only in USA/Canada but also in Australia/Germany/France/Communist China 2 Koreas ( South & North),Japan and other nations in the world with no real and concrete historic evidences and proofs.

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