The Nanjing Massacre: Unparalleled Horror

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[@rowe024]

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[@vegan-kittie]

I'm Japanese and I appreciate that you made this video. Lots of Japanese (probably most of them) believe Nanjing massacre is a hoax . This is still hidden by the government and the story is fabricated in textbooks that it wasn't the scale of massacre. It's utterly horrific, vile and evil and people should know what has really happened in order not to repeat the same thing again though I'm not very hopeful for humanity seeing what's happening in the world now and forever.

[@o-hogameplay185]

wait, they still teach that it was just a small scale incident? damn. i thought that the hoax was that they think it is a hoax

[@PalmelaHanderson]

One of my best friends grew up in Japan, and from what I remember, he said they weren't really taught that much about WW2 in school prior to the bombings. It was like "we were just minding our own business, then the Americans bombed us." This was over 20 years ago, mind you, so I don't know if the curriculum has changed.

[@gingergrant1057]

Nah, I’m Californian, I assume it’s correct.

[@miliba]

This in turn has is fueling the ongoing hatred of Chinese for Japan, and the CCP is using this strong sentiment to threaten Japan

[@mslpfanatik]

@@gingergrant1057 What?

[@christopherjustice6411]

What haunts me about Nanking. Is the fact that there were no orders to carry out the massacre. The Japanese troops in Nanking just, well they just did it. Nobody ordered them to do it. And nobody in command tried to stop them. This also highlights the bizarre doublethink of the Japanese armed forces during world war 2. We all know that if you surrendered to them they would consider you a coward. But what’s underrepresented in modern media is what they would do if you fought back. Imperial Japanese Troops responded to even the slightest resistance by going into a genocidal rage and killing everything in sight. We’ve done a good job remembering and condemning the Nazis. But the Japanese Empire gets a pass. I never understood that. The Japanese Army was essentially a genocidal death cult that routinely gave the SS a run for their money.

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[@dashippo]

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[@roberthartburg266]

The difference in the ending of Japan and Germany is that while the Japanese committed war crimes against their neighbors, the actual powers they fought at the time were the Colonial Powers that ruled over Asia. The USA, the British Empire, Soviet Union and France didn't give a fuck how many other Asians the Japanese killed, they mostly only cared about the resources and territory. Japan surrendered towards the USA, not towards the Chinese. Meanwhile the war between Germany, the Soviet Union, the British Empire and France got close and personal, with each one having their capital city threatened at one point during WW2. Berlin got stormed by Russian soldiers who had fought the Germans at the gates of Moscow.

[@marvindebot3264]

Even the SS had their limits and prosecuted several units for war crimes, that never occurred in WW2 Japan.

[@gardeto8148]

Bro, even the nazis were like "woah dude, uh thats not cool" There was also insane amounts of propaganda to hide the events at nanjing, i think even the allies chose to ignore the events and may have even slightly bolstered the propaganda. Wild.

[@tjm11015]

Thank you whole heartedly for not censoring this due to monetization or offending people. This is the kind of story that needs to be told in all its truth and entirety.

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[@klocugh12]

I think it doesn't warrant any censorship, very title of the story is plenty of warning in itself, if one is easily triggered. It would be kind of silly to expect sunshine and rainbows in this one. You press play, you know you're getting into DARK stuff.

[@sventer198]

Right!

[@heffatheanimal2200]

Agreed, thank you to Simon and team for getting this video out there. The horror of this event is something that many have tried to cover up, and it should never be forgotten. While not as huge and systematic as the Holocaust, I think the brutality and viciousness of atrocities such as Nanjing and Unit 731 to be even worse. While I applaud that this video is here, it is still VERY sanitized, skimming over the lighter surface and skipping the majority of the mind destroying brutality. If you feel your can stomach it I recommend reading The R*pe of Nanking by Iris Chang, or if reading is difficult try the 3 part series from the Lions Led By Donkeys podcast

[@tjm11015]

@@heffatheanimal2200 I wouldn't say this was worse than the holocaust, and I know what you meant, scale not horror. Read Rise and Fall of the Third Reich. My grandfather was in a nazi camp for two years, and what little he could stand to tell me was enough that I was never shocked by humanity again.

[@butterberro949]

As someone from Nanjing, I want to thank you for making this video about the Nanjing Massacre, helping the Western world understand this horrific and painful part of history. In Nanjing, almost every family has victims of the massacre. My grandmother was a survivor; she was under ten years old at the time, and when she talks about those events, her eyes fill with tears. The Nanjing Massacre is a deep wound in the heart of every Nanjing native. Our memorial day is on Dec 13th each year. At 10am that day, the entire city of Nanjing sounds its sirens. Pedestrians on the street stop and observe a moment of silence, students and teachers in schools stand to do the same, and vehicles honk their horns in tribute to the victims. Nanjing has a Nanjing Massacre Memorial Museum, and the exhibits there are so horrific that they haunted my childhood nightmares. As I’ve grown older, I’ve come to feel the weight of this history even more profoundly. It vividly reflects the ugliness of human nature, the fragility of life, and the cruelty of war. I hope there will be less war and more peace in this world; I think that is the true meaning of remembering history like the Nanjing Massacre.

[@snakeinthegrass7443]

God bless you and most especially your grandmother and all your other relatives from that period. What a horrible time be alive, especially in some places.

[@tullo5564]

Watch out and be safe, genes and traits do not change...

[@ziyeren5509]

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[@DTL0VER]

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[@gulryz9853]

@@tullo5564 China is no longer a weak country outsiders can just invade and do whatever they desire

[@llamasugar5478]

My first exposure to this horror was when I asked a Chinese student at university _why_ there was such animosity toward the Japanese (in the context of her being very offended when people asked her if she was Japanese). She didn’t want to talk about it, but for Christmas she gave me a book, _The Rape of Nanking._ I will just say this: Simon’s writer has shown restraint.

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[@SarafinaSummers]

Do you happen to know the author of that book? I’d like to read it. Thank you.

[@llamasugar5478]

@@SarafinaSummers I think my copy is still packed somewhere; I’ll try to locate it.

[@jrmiao6797]

She passed away due to depression.You can search for The Rape of Nanking. @@SarafinaSummers

[@cokesquirrel]

Written by Iris Chang. She commited $uicide at age 36. I don't think it was ever officially proven but most people said it was due to the trauma that riding the book caused her

[@MudflapNichols]

You know it's a bad scene when the biggest humanitarian present is a Nazi.

[@pyromania1018]

John Rabe was not exposed to the worst excesses of Nazism. When he got back from China, he was locked up for annoying the Japanese.

[@GooseGumlizzard]

Schindler was a Nazi too

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[@blarfroer8066]

I'd recommend you to look into John Rabe a bit further. You will not only understand the N@zi rise to power better, you will also see how modern day extremists still use similar propaganda.

[@IvanJohnson-w2k]

Just a German diplomat at this point

[@janusjones6519]

There was an incident in Australia where the japanese embassy literally lodged a complaint when a church erected a memorial to comfort women. Imagine the german government complaining about something putting up a holocaust memorial…utterly unbelievable

[@BouncingZeus]

Japan likes to pretend like WW2 never happened.

[@LunaWingz]

The japanese government was never apologetic about the war or the things they did, unlike the german government who did apologise.

[@kiriseraph9674]

I think because they weren't defeated, occupied, and put through rigorous education to impress on them how shameful their recent past was. Japan got away without occupation so the government just brushed it all under the carpet :/@@LunaWingz

[@MosoKaiser]

​@@aleksamitrovic023Jan Ruff O'Herne. Look it up.

[@billyjean3118]

@@aleksamitrovic023are you kidding ?

[@Kingdom_Of_Dreams]

People call the hatred of the Japanese by Chinese and Korean citizens as xenophobic, but when you look at the history of Japan's war crimes against these two countries, you can understand. On top of that, Japan today downplays their war crimes or outright denies them. They don't teach any of it to their younger generations, so these kids grow up thinking that they've been the innocent victims of America's brutal nuclear attacks. Little did they know that these nuclear attacks were a last resort against the barbaric violence and evil committed by Japanese soldiers at the time. The only Japanese people who are knowledgable of the past and are ashamed of it are the older generation, people who grew up during WWII or directly after.

[@richardp7815]

Ｗell said truly. Thank you so much for saying this.

[@epic_rowlet914]

im japanese however i was born and raised in australia, ive always considered japan as awful, they hide so much bad history. whilst germany teaches the history, japan hides it.

[@raid1010]

Yea, wtf

[@scuttlebum]

The atomic bomb was not a last resort, it was purely a display of power from President Truman and his cabinet. The Japanese had already been beaten back to the shore by the Russian advancement after the Nazis surrendered. The allied forces had effectively won, but the US wanted ultimate victory, and then used this display of power against the Japanese to intimidate and bully the world to this day. Same as the Japanese on Nanjing, the US has also obscured its history of crimes.

[@changingpeopleslivesmoon2993]

Fr and you could say the same with russia to day Russians think that they were the only ones that stopped the nazis and they are the good guys when they forget they also started ww2 by helping germany invade Poland and the war crimes the red army did to german women in Berlin 1945

[@alexlents4689]

I don’t have many problems with modern-day Japan, but the continued refusal of the government to apologize for or even acknowledge their war crimes during WWII is disgusting. Edit: this is literally probably the most likes I’ve ever gotten from a comment! Thanks.

[@unocoltrane2804]

In my opinion, not enough was done to shame their leadership when they finally surrendered to the U.S. I feel like that would have led to different policies. There's still shinto shrines honoring japanese war criminals, so they clearly have not been shamed enough.

[@dalaminaubis7822]

They get to hide behind the use of atomic weapons against them, trying to cap off the war as an atrocity against them and ending with them being the victims, avoiding blame for their own sins.

[@timothyhouse1622]

@@jacobbaran what the F are you going on about, Weeboo?

[@clevername4205]

No, he wants an official statement acknowledging the crime. Read the comment.

[@timothyhouse1622]

@@jacobbaran aw, are you big mad, lil feller. Making light about this subject and talking about "victim complex" only showed you suffer from the Dunning-Kruger Effect. Oh no, the Japanese felt uncomfortable surrendering so that made up for all the war crimes. Go cuddle your Waifu pillow.

[@cjaquino28]

You know it was horrible beyond words when a Nazi officer says "...This is too much; I gotta do something".

[@blarfroer8066]

John Rabe wasn't your mad SS officer. He believed the lies that Hitler had told to get into power(which are disturbingly similar to Trump's lies), but he hadn't been indoctrinated to the point of losing his humanity.

[@barrymccokiner7559]

The Germans were no where near as bad as they are made out to be. It’s decades of Jewish Bolshevick propaganda.

[@Merlinsbigbeard]

To be fair, he wouldn’t have done anything if the civilians were Jewish or Slavic. He only cared because, according to Nazi ideology, the Chinese were “honorary aryans.”

[@GingerBalls-fp8kx]

@fast_effect5029 Lol that’s bullshit 😄 the Germans were gentlemen compared to the japs

[@MrNommerz]

@@Merlinsbigbeard I thought it was the Japanese who were honorary aryans. I think it was more just that he had lived among the Chinese people and couldn't delude himself into not seeing that they were human beings.

[@bbruggma]

I took a Japan at war class when I was in college for my BA in history research. The class was taught by an incredible instructor who was Japanese. She was fearless in teaching the dark parts of her own history. We learned about the Japanese occupation of Korea, the Rape of Nanjing, Unit 731, and so much more. We read survivor testimony. We read civilian and soldier diaries and memoirs. That class was probably the heaviest class I took in my time at college and to this day the knowledge of what happened weighs on my soul but I am grateful to have learned and I am grateful that professor taught so bravely and did not censor a history she felt shame for. And there was shame. You could see it on every inch of her face and hear it in every word she spoke. She was ashamed of the atrocities her country had perpetuated. I know it is said too much, to the point that the words have lost their meaning, but we must learn history, for those who do not are doomed to repeat it. And those who erase history are planning to repeat it. We must become comfortable with discomfort, with speaking of painful horrible things. We will live with the ghosts of the past whether we are haunted by the memory or tormented by their revival.

[@ZijnShayatanica]

"Those who erase history are planning to repeat it" PRECISELY.

[@deluxenobu]

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[@deluxenobu]

What he is talking about in the video is that in Japan there are only communists/socialists or academics. They are a very small percentage of Japan as a whole. I think the female teacher is someone who was taught by academy scholars who do not understand what evidence is. I think she/they don't understand what evidence is, and so they use their "imagination" as evidence and explain it as fact, which they can't. Just like the author of this video. Just like the author of this video.

[@ZijnShayatanica]

@@deluxenobu Speaking of someone using their imagination as evidence & stating it as fact...

[@bbruggma]

@@deluxenobu Um... No. Academics very much understand what evidence is. No matter how much you dislike the history that my professor was teaching, does not give you the right to dismiss her or others like her as having used their "imagination" to fill in the blanks. There are first hand accounts of what happened in Nanjing. Firsthand accounts from soldiers who perpetrated the horrors as well as accounts from survivors. There is no imagination used to fill in the blanks. The blanks have been filled in for us by the people who actually lived it. It seems if anyone is using their imagination to fill in the blanks, it is you, using imagination to create a history that you can better swallow. Go do some actual research and then come talk to me.

[@JHulse29]

Honestly i feel like you only scratched the surface of the absolute depravity of this massacre. Iris Chang, whose own grandparents were survivors, recounts the grisly massacre with understandable outrage. "So dehumanized did Chinese become in the eyes of the Japanese troops, she tells us, that many soldiers went beyond rape to disembowel women, slice off their breasts, nail them alive to walls. Fathers were forced to rape their daughters, and sons their mothers, as other family members watched. Not only did live burials, castration, the carving of organs and the roasting of people become routine, but more diabolical tortures were practiced, such as hanging people by their tongues on iron hooks or burying people to their waists and watching them torn apart by German shepherds. So sickening was the spectacle that even Nazis in the city were horrified.''

[@LadyLeda2]

I believe Iris Chang wrote a book called "The Raping of Nanking." She did a lot of research and interviews for her book. The stories were so horrific that after the book was published she killed herself. It was a documentary that I watched here on U-tube years ago about Iris Chang. So sad, but she just could not get those horrors out of her mind.

[@anglishbookcraft1516]

It goes to show that fighting till the last man is not always ignorant and disconnected from reality. Another great example is how Hitler ordered the sixth army to fight till the last man in Stalingrad, and the newly promoted field Marshal thought Hitler was insane. So the 200,000+ army surrendered and then they were all killed in Soviet captivity. Random example but it’s just one of the many times when fighting an extreme foe that it’s either die on your feet or on your knees.

[@hgc5293]

Iris Chang’s book is brilliant. Alas, she too ended up a victim.

[@chillmode4life]

​@@LadyLeda2 Thats wild. All this stuff was never mentioned in school only Germany's war crimes.

[@jsw973]

What I realised is that the Third Reich was methodical in their killings, although sadistic bastards were everywhere, it was not the emphasis, and they just want to kill as many as possible as soon as possible. The Japanese Empire is much more sadistic, they engage in the torment much more than the Nazis did. This results in less deaths, but more suffering for the victims.

[@TurtleChad1]

It's scary that so many people just don't realize that it wasn't just Germany that did terrible things.

[@InquisitorXarius]

Agreed

[@InquisitorXarius]

It was also Russia and China too, alongside Japan

[@Tuturial464]

This was the Japanese holocaust

[@SkunkApe407]

​@@InquisitorXariusthe US, UK, and Canada did a lot of messed up shit, too. Canada threw hand grenades at civilians while they were trying to gather food from an aid shipment. Don't act like it was only a few. The horrible actions of all parties are why the Geneva Convention exists.

[@shawnnewell4541]

In many ways, Japan was worse than Germany toward their conquered peoples. If you were not Jewish the Germans left you alone pretty much. Not the Japanese.

[@megamani547]

Not Chinese but Korean immigrant. I once went to target and put on a snow hat, one with flaps and furs. I thought it looked cool because of those hunters in the snow in our history books. I showed my dad (white) and he said it looked cool. I showed my mom (Korean). She started yelling at me to take it off. My dad was confused and I was scared because I was only 5. She said I should never wear that kind of hat, since it looked too similar to the Japanese war caps. I didn’t even know where Korea and Japan were on a map so I was crying as my mom started to yell about what things they did to my grandma and grandpa growing up in Japan occupied korea. She was screaming of genuine fear and panic that I’ve never seen before. Details I never knew about people I’ve never met or heard of before. My dad got angry at my mom for mentioning things such as killings and rape in the middle of a target, they fought in the car, and I don’t really remember the rest of that day. However, it always stuck with me that my mom, born in the 60s, had ptsd from her parents who lived through that time, and these events of history are only a generation or two removed. It’s important to understand that this happened, not very long ago, and history can repeat.

[@Palemagpie]

My condolences mate. I'm sure that was a traumatic childhood memory, and to your mother. Having to carry that kind of history around within her. Can't have been easy

[@ScreaminPicklesMcGee]

I believe that infants in the womb absorb some of their mothers trauma and epigenetics says that trauma can be passed down, so I believe in something like secondhand PTSD.. people often has scars that affect the kids life growing up with affects their development and mental health tremendously. Like children of Great Depression and WWII era parents are also prone to hoarding.

[@miaomiaochan]

Trauma can and does get passed down. What we do with the trauma we're handed is important, and that is to ensure that future generations can learn from history and prevent it from repeating.

[@frostyhamster3116]

Your mom is kinda crazy

[@jayeden3532]

@@frostyhamster3116 Guess why.

[@arleneparada5593]

I didn't learn about the Nanjing massacres until I was well into adulthood. The Holocaust is common knowledge for most Americans. I was shocked this was not common knowledge while I was in grade school and shocked the Japanese government still denies it. We need more awareness on this event. Please keep educating people.

[@18Hongo]

As terrifying as the rape of Nanjing was, historically it wasn't that out of place. For much of history, conquered cities would be "sacked" as a matter of course. The brutality of these sackings varied somewhat: Aurelian's first sack of Palmyra, and Alaric's sack of Rome were relatively organised, restrained affairs compared to the sack of Constantinople by the fourth crusade, or the 1527 sack of Rome, where commanders largely lost control of their troops, and looting and destruction continued at random until the majority of the city's wealth had been carried off, or the invaders just got bored. As horrific as either of those possibilities were, they pale in comparison to the organised and comprehensive destruction of a city, exemplified by Aurelian's second sack (read: razing) of Palmyra, and the sack of just about anywhere unlucky enough to be in Ghengis Khan's way. It's definitely worth remembering that for much of history, the looting and destruction of a conquered city (and the consequent rape and murder of its inhabitants) wasn't just a common occurrence - it was often standard policy. The extent and intensity of the brutality varied, yes, but one way or another, it generally fell well within the sensibilities of the time. And while it's hard to accurately place the rape of Nanjing within the long and horrendous history of sackings, it still serves as a pretty stark reminder that the experiences of the people of Nanjing were probably very comparable to those of the unlucky people in so many cities throughout history. The haunting stories of the savagery of the Japanese and the horrors they visited on the citizens of Nanjing are the same stories told by the Palmyreans of Aurelian's legionnaires, or by the Eastern Romans of the Crusaders. They're the stories of the medieval Chinese, Middle Eastern, and Slavic people who fell victim to the conquests of the Mongols. They are the experiences of countless people across the world, throughout history, who were unlucky enough to find themselves in a settlement that failed to withstand a seige and suffered a remorseless brutality that wasn't only carried out by the invading soldiers, but was often encouraged and directed by their commanders.

[@Dennis-nc3vw]

Because the Holocaust was done by White people.

[@kddreadlord5532]

@@frozensmile6563 That's the Chinese Communist Army. During this massacre, China was not communist yet. These were innocent people being slaughtered, the things the communists did can't be used to justify what the Japanese did.

[@ssglbc1875]

@@frozensmile6563that’s like saying japan imperial army massacred 35 million Chinese. For one only a small fraction of all these numbers were massacred while most starved or died of disease it’s really hard to determine if those numbers are accurate too stupid comment

[@supernodream]

nonsense@@frozensmile6563

[@刺猬-p9s]

On December 13, 2004, Nanjing issued an air defense warning to commemorate the victims of the Nanjing Massacre. At that time, classmates were attending a geography class when the geography teacher suddenly said, "if you think you're from Nanjing, please stand up." There were very few people who didn't stand up. The teacher said, "If your parents are also from Nanjing, you can continue to stand." At least half of the students sat down. The teacher spoke again, "Grandparents or grandparents are also from Nanjing, please stand." This time, no students stood. The teacher said, "All you know why." This short 10 minutes is more unforgettable than any patriotic education I have attended before or after.

[@Light-at-Dawn]

In 2017 I actually visited the Nanjing massacre memorial hall. Words can't describe what a chilling experience it was to witness all of these tragedies, grouped into one single terrible city that has fallen into the hands of a ruthless enemy. May all the victims rest in peace🙏

[@woahblackbettybamalam]

Sounds like London now

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[@Menplzdonttalktome]

I spent months in Nanjing on my year abroad, and was there when it was the annual remembrance day. It was so eery when everybody just stood still on campus and there were what sounded like air raid sirens blaring.

[@EroticOnion23]

Nanjing was like what happened to a ancient/medieval city that was stormed, but with modern day record keeping. Read about what happened to Troy/Carthage/Baghdad/Delhi, etc...

[@_rs9391]

It was a moment of silence for the 300,000 people who died.​@@Menplzdonttalktome

[@deawinter]

THANK YOU. I recently posted about Nanjing on Twitter and got swarmed by imperialist Japanese propaganda, which was bizarre to say the least. That this is so well-documented and still being denied is sickening to me.

[@brianmorgan7703]

It took Japan until 2013 to apologize for it. They were outright denying it took place well into the 90's.

[@Tuturial464]

@@brianmorgan7703and they don’t teach it in schools or understand the gravity of their actions

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[@alvarny77]

You mean imperialist Japanese propaganda is a thing??

[@tomhenry897]

That wasn’t an apology

[@TealRubyy]

This is a piece of history we must never forget. Nanking/Nanjing Massacre survivors are far and few between now, and the Japanese government couldn't be any happier. My grandma was a little girl living on the outskirts of Nanjing when Japan invaded. She, along with many residents, fled into the nearby mountains and hills when Japanese soldiers marched on Nanjing. Had she not fled, I probably wouldn't have been born. Although my grandma wasn't killed during the invasion, many of her uncles and cousins who fought in the war were killed. She died 3 years ago, and requested to be buried back in her hometown near Nanjing alongside her uncles and her father. I have nothing against Japanese people, Japanese culture, or Japan as a country, but their government, from 1950s til now, either severely downplayed or just flat out denied the massacre. That is unforgivable. Even worse is the rewriting of history to make Imperial Japan look like the victims of WW2. The Japanese government should really take a minute to think why their relations with other Asian countries, especially China and Korea, are so strained...

[@ronjones-6977]

The last time somebody called Nagasaki and Hiroshima a "war crime," I called it "a good start" and told them to read up on Nanking.

[@miaomiaochan]

Yes, it's important not to condemn the Japanese people, because what they knew about the war and occupation was probably propaganda designed to maintain public support. They were essentially told what to think.

[@Luke-ke7sh]

As a Japanese, I am truly sorry for what your grandma has gone thru. If any of this happened to my family, I would not forgive or forget.

[@count_rizzula]

​@@ronjones-6977You are a psychopath if you think Nanjing justifies bombing Hiroshima and Nagasaki. It wasn't "righteous vengeance." It was US testing out their new toy on civilians. There is a reason why collective punishment is a war crime under the geneva convention. You can't just kill upwards of 246,000 people because their country's military did something horrific.

[@tabchannel8995]

日本人としてざまあみろと思います😊

[@shineluvslambiel]

Imagine if German leaders today paid annual tribute to Hitler’s shrine. That’s what the Japanese leaders still do to Japan’s equivalent of Hitler. Yet the world loves Japan and thinks it can do no wrong. It’s truly mind boggling.

[@bluehawaii0007]

The reason why people around the world love Japan is because they have actually been to Japan and understood the essence of Japan. On the other hand, the Chinese people have been taught a false image of the Japanese people through anti-Japanese education, and they just believe that.

[@wchen20399]

@@bluehawaii0007 The essence of Japan is like that of the Nazis. This won't change no matter what you think of China.

[@kriswang9620]

it seems like you earn a dirty money so that you make such a dirty talk@@bluehawaii0007

[@DigDog-t7n]

@@bluehawaii0007is the essence of Japan murdering more than 30 million people in China alone?

[@ZhuxiLi]

@@bluehawaii0007 Most of the world love Japan because their country wasn't affected by Japan as much as Korea and China during WW2.

[@weirdshibainu]

My father had joined the Navy in 1937 and was stationed in China in 1938. He witnessed the brutality of the Japanese against the Chinese population in general and stories of the massacre of Nanking had become well known. He fought in the Pacific, including the liberation of the Philippines where the population was treated much the same as the Chinese. His only problem with the use of the Bomb was that we didn't use one a day for a month. People think the European theater was ground zero for genocide and brutality, but this video illuminates the behavior of the Imperial Japanese military who considered superior to all other Asians. Thanks for the video Simon.

[@InquisitorXarius]

Correction the Japanese Military not the Imperial Japanese, they still have a False Divine Emperor after all so there is little difference in government nor the responsibility of those who compose that government and the Japanese Elite.

[@PositivePeteOffical]

My father was full of shit, go figure.

[@weirdshibainu]

@@PositivePeteOffical Too bad. Mine wasn't

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[@weirdshibainu]

@@PositivePeteOffical WTF

[@theforgottenhoodie3844]

In my junior yr of hs, my history teacher had us read accounts from victims and perpetrators of the massacre, what was described was how the Japanese were programmed to become conscienceless killers who could commit atrocities without any remorse. The stories that I read were unbelievable and made a person think, “how does one come up with this kind of idea?” I think it’s very important to remember this terrible event in history. Thank you for telling this story

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[@maciej9280]

@@PositivePeteOffical go do one urself, troll

[@yeshuaislord6880]

Japan had a strong rejection of Christianity. That's why all those atrocities happened. When Germany abandoned Christianity or catholicism, they did the same. They were on the whole less extreme than the Japanese because there were some small morality remaining in them. America being the strongest and most Christian out of all the major nations at the time, committed significantly less atrocities despite of what they were definitely capable of doing.

[@Wasteland88]

​@@yeshuaislord6880Nah

[@emeraldbreeze5204]

Many people do not know that since 1950, the Chinese Communist Army massacred a total of 1.2 million Tibetans, and between 1966 and 1976, they massacred over 100,000 Mongolians and over 200,000 Guangxi Zhuangs. These were huge massacres of different ethnic groups that far exceeded those committed by the Japanese military during the war, and the Chinese government is trying to erase them from history.

[@KuroPandaX3]

Powerful video. As a Chinese, I believe these are not my trauma to bear nor burdens to be bore by the next generation of Japanese similarly distanced from the experience. It is, however important for us to speak, learn and acknowledge the history in hopes to live in a brighter future. Forgiveness is not mine to give, rather optimism to unity for a shared better future.

[@LordZoth6292]

I appreciate this post.

[@SgtPeppersLonelyHeartsClubBand]

Part Korean descent here; really nicely articulated. I think in opposition to the hopes for a shared better future is the Japanese government who still work today to diminish their country's role in these genocidal events.

[@judithermer7969]

@@KuroPandaX3 loved your comment, although my father suffered at the hands of the Japanese during WW2 we were bought up not to hold any animosity towards them. Later generations should not be held accountable for their ancestors actions, learn from it so it is not repeated.

[@可達鴨-n9q]

你没有权利选择原谅！

[@ConsciousConversations]

2:19 this warning. Respect. “Features a lot of survivor testimony and as we don’t wish to belittle their experience we have not sanitize nor edited their testimonies to make them more palatable or monetizable”

[@krasiomilchev160]

I really hate how Japan managed to turn its image around after the war and doesn't carry the stigma of it unimaginable brutallities as Germany does. Compared to the rape of Nanjing, unit 731 doesn't even sound half as scary and that thing was a whole gruesome ordeal on its own.

[@cw8]

Unit 731 was worse though, in terms of cruelty and scare factor, extremely cruel experiments while the patients were all alive with no anesthesia. In terms of scale and magnitude, Nanjing Massacre is much bigger of course.

[@brianthesnail3815]

It is because WWII intervened and the horror of the nuclear weapons dropped on Japan and the subsequent surrender and take over by the USA mean it was politically expedient to 'forget'. Japan was a bulwark against Soviet expansion in the Pacific and there was no appetite to hold them to account. Let us not forget that in Germany very few people were ever prosecuted as it was agree that prosecuting everybody would be impossible and frankly the country would have ceased to function as so many low level officials were involved.

[@tyleroutingdyke849]

​@@cw8also the bubonic plague balloons that still have effects to this day on the area

[@070272kt]

Please investigate the circumstances of the Japanese military's assault on American Consulate General employee John Moore Allison and the subsequent punishment. This incident has been reported as the most famous rape committed by Japanese soldiers in Nanjing. Alison, an American, is asked to rescue a woman from the Chinese who has been abducted and raped by Japanese soldiers. He went to the house at the scene with Japanese military police. A group of Japanese soldiers was seen taking a Chinese woman into a house and raping her. A petty officer in the group of rapists was furious that the Americans had come to investigate the violation of military discipline, and he punched Allison. The incident was widely reported in the United States, and protests were held in Washington. Japan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs apologized to Allison, the lieutenant who led the rape was court-martialed and sentenced to prison, and the sergeant who carried out the assault was demoted to private first class. If you have time, why not check out "Shen Chong case"?

[@T.Andronicus142]

Why should generations of people with no connection to the brutalities carry the stigma? Wouldn't it make more sense to applaud the shift in Japanese culture and to mourn the continuing stigmatization of Germany? I realize this just comes down to different opinions.

[@geraldmiller5260]

When I was in the Nanjing massacre museum, it was built on an execution site that was covered by glass. The skeletons contained childrens' skulls. The holes in their skulls matched those of Japanese bayonets. Bayonets were used to kill babies to save ammunition.

[@JD-tx1gv]

There is also a "pit of 10000 corpses" in Datong, Shanxi province. It is located on the site of a coal mine, and all the bodies were people whove been forced to work in the coal mines by the Japanese army.

[@ilyulia_]

"to save ammunition" that's one of the sickest things i ever read what the fuck

[@bluebelle8823]

Rabe is a man more people need to know about, the idea of the exception to the rule. Thank you George for your effort in finding the right Chinese voices for this story. I've never heard quotes from survivors before.

[@PositivePeteOffical]

This is the kind of story that needs to be told - A company producing a metal wallet that trumps all others. Ridge Wallet!!!!!! Holds twelve cards. Simon only has three.

[@soyevquirsefron990]

I don’t think he was a “good nazi” I think he was a normally empathetic person who felt normal human empathy for his Chinese neighbors but also had been convinced that it was ok to dehumanize Jews. Nazis were bad people , I’m not defending them or these Japanese soldiers. This was evil stuff. What I am saying is that normal empathetic people can be convinced that it’s ok to be evil to certain groups of people while still remaining “good” to others, so we all need to be careful when we start to think that certain people are less than human

[@Mike-hu3pp]

​@@soyevquirsefron990But some had to make a choice between a rock and a hard place.

[@bluebelle8823]

@@soyevquirsefron990 I think that is why as simon says bigger heads than mine have been struggling to reconcile the two parts of him. And as the previous person says there is the rock and a hard place problem in that whole time period. It is difficult for us in this time and age to to understand what it was really like then in any country. The fear mongering, gaslighting and horror

[@roberthartburg266]

John Rabe didn't get any support when he was destitute after WW2 in Germany, because the Allies and West German government didn't want to promote the public image that a Nazi would be a good human. The Chinese people he helped survive then came to Germany and supported him. Still he died in poverty. A fate he has in common with Oskar Schindler.

[@Adzer2k10]

My fiance is from Nanjing and I've been to the massacre museum/memorial. It was built over a mass grave of captured Chinese soldiers and you can view excavated sections filled with bones/skeletons. It was one of the most raw places I've ever been to.

[@外露射武]

南京虐殺については国民党の蔣介石の日記や当時の新聞を見れば分かる。 あれは国民党が虐殺したのを日本軍に罪をなすりつけてる。 ただ日本軍は中国軍は殺したが民間人へは故意に殺してない。 歴史を知るには当時の相手国(中国)の資料を見ることが大事やで。

[@外露射武]

本当に事実なら中国は論文を書いて学術的に日本へ抗議しているであろう。 当時の資料が読める台湾人や香港人、そして南京の当事者なら中共のでっち上げだって事は一目瞭然

[@tabchannel8995]

It is a Chinese propaganda museum. Don't you know that?

[@HGQ3]

@@tabchannel8995 shutup

[@Primaltreeman]

@@tabchannel8995 Is there anything China can do that is not propaganda to you?

[@Dogdoc1000]

I visited Nanjing several years ago. The memorial was so sad. I had not even realized that it had occurred. I am glad it is getting some exposure. My son is visiting Japan this next three weeks and has been to China. The people in both countries are great today. I am glad my family has been able to visit both. History is important though so we do not repeat it in the future. Sigh. But massacres will continue in other countries because humans will human.

[@PositivePeteOffical]

I was going to visit, but I spent all my money on a ridge-based wallet. Totally worth it!

[@lesliesteele3926]

I went to Germany years ago and one of our stops was Berlin. The memorial to the estimated number of Holocaust victims is massive and heart breaking.

[@raquellofstedt9713]

@@lesliesteele3926 I took my son thre. H was particularly affcted by the featre where one pickes a name and follows what happens to that individual through the course of the Holocaust. His person, a child in his learly teens, didn not survive. That made an impression, that and watching me try to find record of my father´s best frind in the yad vassem archives of my father+s best friend who had survived the camps just to die of beri beri heart in the mountains in California in the early fifties (they went to the same high school in Fresno). Because he survived as a fluke, he wasn´t tatooed (only ceratin years were and he was snatched up and walked past selection) his whole shipment was simply labeled as disposed of. No further information as to departure point . That sobered a rather cocky young Swede considerably.

[@Pavlos_Charalambous]

​@@PositivePeteOfficalyou need to visit a Psychiatrist

[@ampur2]

​@@lesliesteele3926wait until you visit Auschwitz Birkenau

[@nathanielmathews2617]

The Nanjing Massacre along with Unit 731 were some of the most important pieces of history to me becoming the person I am today. I tried to understand the mindset of Imperial Japan. Then how it became what it is today. It is so strange how in 1 century we see such a distinct difference. Ugh, I dont want to get into politics on this story. But man, when I saw the videos from Hamas invading Israel I was reminded of the various tragedies in history. Feeling bad for the civilians but even still grimly aware of the fate of the Palestinians... Thank you Simon and the writers. History is so important. Let this atrocity never be forgotten.

[@三十而立立不立]

这就是美国政府，他们拥有绝大部分媒体，夸奖美国的盟友，诋毁美国的敌人，一切为了利益。他们支持以色列屠杀巴勒斯坦，他们说反抗的哈马斯组织是恐怖主义者，他们帮助日本人遗忘历史，美化历史，说中国是邪恶的，只是因为我们努力工作，赚钱，有可能拿走他们的世界第一皇冠

[@mrvwbug4423]

You know it had to be absolutely horrific when even a Nazi thought they went too far.

[@shanetuma3845]

You people say this as if every single member of the Nazi party was aware and condoned of the atrocities committed. They were for the most part just regular people lied to by the political leadership, not to mention preyed upon by the Jewish menace throughout the 1920s.

[@rylansato]

Another interesting thing is a Japanese diplomat thought the same about the Holocaust and gave out countless visas to help Jews escape

[@VinnyLam]

He was mostly just a diplomat, though. The actual hardcore Nazis, like the Einsatzgruppen or Waffen-SS commanders, wouldn’t have cared.

[@Leo.de99]

@@rylansatojust shows that not all of Japan’s were bad like the Germans

[@BudzTejano]

@@rylansato japanese diplomat is very different from. A Nazi officer.

[@chansonc2649]

I'm from Nanjing. Thank you for producing this. The history should not be forgotten, and we also hope for friendly relations between China and Japan in the new era.

[@rionthemagnificent2971]

Even though TO THIS DAY , Japan refuses to acknolwedge the "R-pe of Nanking", they call it "Maoist propaganda."

[@justandy333]

On a personal note, I have to admire Simon for posting this video. Although grim and horrific, its a part of our history. No doubt this video will be demonetised by the robot that is youtube. But its very important for people to hear what has gone before, no matter how horrific. So Simon, and I think I speak on behalf of most of us, thankyou for making this video, I know you probably won't be earning anything from youtube, but it's important that the good and the bad from history is shared. A bit of a ambivalent statement but there we are.

[@PositivePeteOffical]

I admire Simon for promoting a 12-card based wallet.

[@Pavlos_Charalambous]

@@PositivePeteOffical at least he doesn't have to make a living by spamming the thread That's really low life

[@张三-n9j8j]

​@DynamicMoment-dl2xxRubbish is full of hypocrisy, Japanese aggression and whitewashing.

[@Jayjay-qe6um]

In 1995, Daniel Kwan held a photo exhibit in Los Angeles, "The Forgotten Holocaust". In 2005, John Rabe's former residence in Nanjing was renovated and now accommodates the "John Rabe and International Safety Zone Memorial Hall", which opened in 2006. On October 9, 2015, Documents of the Nanjing Massacre have been listed on the UNESCO Memory of the World Register.

[@mhuntprofessional]

Thank you for producing this. Too many people never knew and this horror should not be lost to history.

[@tullo5564]

Yeah, not so trustworthy county after all

[@tatchik77]

THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR MAKING THIS VIDEO! I hate that facts can't be acknowledged, victims can't be remembered, and monsters can't be called out on KZbin without being demonetized or outright banned! Ignoring atrocities doesn't make them go away it just makes us repeat them.

[@张三-n9j8j]

​@DynamicMoment-dl2xxWithout you, we would be better, so many hardships would not have happened, and we should stop the hypocritical just advocacy of the war of aggression.

[@gardeto8148]

If i remember correctly, the military set up rape houses (I think it was part of some effort to disguise the insane numbers of rapes and killings) where the average looking woman or girl was raped an average of 20 times per day and someone who was exceptionally pretty was raped 40 times per day - often until they died or were so unbelievably disease ridden that they were left to die. This was also deep in the winter months and the women and girls in the "houses" had no clothes. This has always stuck with me and it still blows my mind how evil most of the japanese soldiers were during this invasion. The stuff committed there, often unreported, is so cruel that its hard to even imagine something like this could possibly happen.

[@sirhenrymorgan1187]

Yup. Both the Germans and Japanese set up sex slave systems for their soldiers to use. The Germans had a series of "brothels" where the soldiers would rape and torture women and girls, while Japan had the "comfort women" system. Women and children from all over Eurasia and the Asia-Pacific were forced into this wretched system of rape, torture, and mutilation for the amusement of God knows how many men...

[@m_wu]

这些女生，最多来源韩国，其次中国，最后是东南亚，包括菲律宾，印度尼西亚，缅甸泰国

[@youkik3248]

They have a lot of comfort women in their own country, not to mention how they treat women from other countries.

[@chiROC-k7c]

japs cut off women's genitals for experiments, made women mate with dogs, and conducted all kinds of anti-human experiments, and of course, a lot of the experimental data ended up in the hands of Americans

[@SADFORIAN]

I read The Rape of Nanking by Iris Chang a few years back and highly recommend it. She similarly catalogued the insanity that went on, but I'd highlight her vivid description (from survivor interviews) of the encroachment of the Japanese into the city, mainly from how the sound of distant shelling and gunfire creeped ever closer. Sadly, she took her own life a few years after the release of her book.

[@tehnoobestgamer]

Or did she?

[@EBRoyJr]

Did she take her own life? Many believe, as do I that she was murdered by the Japanese government.

[@charvaka5705]

@@tehnoobestgamer govts. have better things to work upon than assassinating writers.

[@theowl2044]

She didn't kill herself.

[@nicholasschroeder3678]

I saw her Booknotes interview with Brian Lamb.(and promptly went and bought and read the book in a sitting--grim but compelling). During the interview, I noticed the rather traumatized staring look of Chang. I thought this woman deeply troubled, though highly informed and articulate. I guess--unless she had other issues--researching and writing the book was just too much. I was sad but not surprised at hearing of her suicide.

[@TheStaratlantisgurl]

HUGE THANK YOU for not sanitizing what people have gone through. I am grateful for it and pray that we people learn from those who have lived through hell. Much respect to you all!!!

[@SledgeGaryHammer]

I really admire your choice not to sanitize the testimonies of survivors.

[@bluebelle8823]

George (the writer) would never do them the injustice. Spend enough time with him on CasCrim and you learn one of his trademarks is nearly uncomfortable levels of detail through personalisation.

[@PositivePeteOffical]

I admire his choice in sponsors.

[@vladthe3rd414]

Yeah … don’t forget to get your ridge wallet on the way out!

[@SledgeGaryHammer]

@@vladthe3rd414 hey, a mans gotta make money, no? i don't mind the monetization, if that's what you're referring to. either way, i don't judge.

[@TomuCow]

Admire who's choice? The one called "Simon" is just a fancy text to speech program used by a script writter.

[@kyegaming3193]

The less we know of our history, the more doomed we are to repeat it. Thank you for bringing our mistakes to light, despite how horrific they are.

[@kdkorz10211]

Surprised you didn’t mention that the Japanese government still denies this ever happened.

[@weirdshibainu]

Right? Nazis bad. Imperial Japan ignored.

[@TheMormonPower]

They don't necessarily denie it, but they certainly go out of their way to teach it in their schools 😮

[@PositivePeteOffical]

Surprised you didn't buy more wallets!

[@TheKrispyfort]

They still deny that they enslaved women, including POWs, for "comfort". Why would the denial of this be any different?

[@esense9602]

Did they mention that some of the Unit 731 officers became a member of Red Cross? Sorry but I can't stomach to watch the video since I know how horrible the Nanking massacre.

[@warheadjcj7331]

thank you for covering this, not a lot people know this outside of China. In nanjing there’s a museum for this, if you think you can handle it, go there and ask anyone about visiting it , they’ll help you

[@m_wu]

日本战争罪行，一般只被中国和韩国揭发，其他地区因为经济落后，文化落后，反而十分喜欢日本，尽管他们的爷爷那代人被屠杀，奶奶被强奸

[@marvindebot3264]

I can not and nor should we blame the current Japanese population for this horror but what we should be very, VERY angry about is that it has been written out of Japanese history, and the government and the education system refuse to admit it ever happened. THIS NEEDS TO CHANGE!

[@Dasaltwarrior]

I think the only mention of it I've ever seen in any Japanese media was a Godzilla movie from the early 2000's, but thats about it. Genuinely wild how it still isn't really brought up

[@bulldogfightingforfreedom]

Not you but I still blame japan and trust me, Koreans ain’t forgetting history

[@jinniwind]

@@bulldogfightingforfreedomthat’s good to know. Asian victims should ally with each other on this topic, including south East Asians. We should make sure that this part of history will never be forgotten, which is exactly the opposite of what the Japanese government has been hoping for.

[@TangoGolfCharlie]

Big respect to you for not editing/sanitising the survivor testimony to make an extra buck. And even more respect for being transparent about it.

[@DeidreL9]

Simon I so respect you for this video, every second of it you have made with such compassion and honesty, it can not have been in any way pleasant to film. I really respect this and you.

[@yuxinhan152]

Thank you for your video! My great-grandma from my mother's side was a victim of the Nanjing Massacre. She was the lucky one who was warned before the Japanese came and had enough money to escape with her three young children. Her trip to Wuhan was quite dangerous and rough. This lady with a bachelor's degree in accounting lost her youngest son during this trip because of an unknown stomach illness. According to what she told my mum (her granddaughter), she thought the boy had already recovered from the disease, so she gave him some food to regain his health. But he died in a short time. There were so many people dying at the time, and she still needed to take care of the other two children, there was no time for grieving. That eventually became her lifelong trauma. One of my best friends has another horrible story. Her grandma (also from her mother's side) was a young girl at the time. She lived with her family in a village in the Nanjing region. When the Japanese came to her village, she hid under the bed and witnessed her family members' brutal deaths. Both ladies were so lucky to survive the massacre and be able to tell their stories. Imagine those who are tortured and dead. Their stories are buried forever with their blood. For those who lived, the trauma was passed down to their children and grandchildren. How can they normally live on after witnessing so many indescribable nightmares?

[@mewkiuu]

When I watch videos like this I always tend to think of the question, "How did these people become like this? How does someone begin to even think treating another living being so inhumanely okay?" With that question I remember all of the people I've met, heard about, read about, watched documentaries on-- all of the people who no one spoke up about, leading them to think their actions are justified. All of this to say, evil begins with not a seed, but a spore. It isn't planted, it travels all around us. And when we slack off and do not take action, those spores turn into mold. So when you see someone at the beginning stages and you have the power to say something, do it. Say they're wrong loudly. They will think that our silence is compliance and do much worse in the future if we don't speak.

[@dashippo]

The thing I always remember is that the people who did this are no different than you or me... different thought processes and beliefs, but overall, that could be you or me. IMO, it makes it scarier.

[@RyanBJones]

😢I'm not excusing the behavior with this comment or am I saying I even understand the inhumanity. But what I can say from personal experience... War is Horrific and it can change you. Sometimes from moment to moment. All the constant sights, sounds, & smells of Death can cause irreparable damage to one's Mind, Body, & Soul. There were things that I personally experienced @ that time, filled me with so much pain, sorrow, fear,& despair... I began to fill up with true hate for the enemy. Honestly I became desensitized. I lost my humanity towards them. They were no longer human beings to me, just monsters. Not justifying it, but unlike the imperial Japanese Army I just felt that way towards the men. Not for woman & children. I was a child myself who became an adult in a War zone where I developed deep contempt for a whole Religion,Race,&Gender. Now I'm a 42yr old Man who feels completely different. I had to forgive. With the help of my Faith, My Family & Therapy, I got better. But it took hard work. Initially I had nightmares PTSD, survivors guilt, depression,& isolation, topped off with substance abuse. But I learned to forgive...not only my enemies but also myself. I learned a long time ago that holding on to hatred is like drinking poison & expecting the other person to die😵 You gotta forgive 2 move on.

[@howardmaryon]

Unfortunately, the continual denial in Japan of these events, and others just like them, means that in modern Japan, the culture that created this utterly inhuman mindset is still present.

[@baldboyfriend8589]

It is shocking. As for the Japanese in this situation, I have heard a lot about how cruel and shockingly atrocious Japanese military in WW2 was towards soldiers, and how it essentially shaped them into these monsters. They were forced into a lot of things including violence and such, and made to be desensitized, and taught to truly believe they were superior over all other asians.

[@PrinceDaemonTargaryen]

​@baldboyfriend8589 not just Asians I'm British and my great uncle was tortured by the Japanese.

[@Freebird1994]

Honestly, I can’t even make a joke like “oh I’m sure this will be a cheerful video lol”, this was just horror. Pure, unadulterated horror.

[@alvarny77]

Oooh. Wait till you watch the videos on the Japanese Unit 731... this would be a walk in the park.

[@RoseInnn]

⁠@@alvarny77It depends really, damage /casualties caused in Nanjing is worse than in 731. It depends whether you consider mass casualty to be a worse thing or not

[@Giovanni-33]

I distinctly remember reading accounts of Japanese soldiers playing games of catch with Chinese babies. They used the bayonets on their guns to skewer the babies after being tossed. That's the most horrific thing I've ever heard. You didn't mention this, so I'm wondering if it was indeed true.

[@PositivePeteOffical]

I distinctly remember buying a ridge wallet!

[@Grouuumpf]

There is definitely a picture of exactly that, now as to the authenticity of it, I cannot say. Though I have little trouble believing it

[@dunar1005]

@@Grouuumpf I think I have seen the same picture. Black and white, two people the left one is holding up his bayonet, which is “ in use” in that moment.

[@baldboyfriend8589]

Highly recommend reading Iris Chang's Rape of Nanking book. Details in there truly reveal how shocking the event was. Details worse than this

[@stevend481]

I dont even get how a human can do that

[@arose4u2]

The thing is, Nanjing wasn’t unique for the Japanese, the difference was that there were western journalists there who recorded it. This happened everywhere they conquered, Indonesia, philippines, Singapore, Burma… etc etc

[@bluehawaii0007]

You are writing without knowing anything about the journalists who recorded Nanking. Harold Timperley, who wrote "What is War?", was a Chinese Nationalist agent. Archibald Steele and Tilman Durdin, who spread the news of the "Nanking Massacre" to the world in December 1937, simply published a report they received from Minor Seel Bates, a missionary in Nanking. Minor Seel Bates was also a Chinese Nationalist agent, and exchanged letters many times with Timperley, another agent. These letters are available online at the Yale University Library, and anyone can see them right now. In fact, when the Japanese army entered Nanking on December 13, 1937, there were three Western journalists other than Steele and Durdin. Arthur Mencken of Paramount News, Charles Maku Daniel of the Associated Press, and Leslie Smith of Reuters. These three described the situation in Nanjing as "normal war" and did not report any massacres. Tilman Durdin attended and testified at the Tokyo Trials, and what he saw was "6,000 Chinese soldiers who had taken off their military uniforms and infiltrated the Safety Zone, and the Japanese military rounded up and executed them." Because these Chinese soldiers had "taken off their military uniforms and infiltrated," this was a "violation of the Hague Convention on Land Warfare" at the time, but no journalists or members of the International Safety Zone Committee at the time openly condemned it. Chinese spies and missionaries spread the lie that "unarmed civilians were massacred." This is the truth of the "Nanjing Massacre."

[@thelegendoof8744]

@@bluehawaii0007”how did you know I’m Japanese?”

[@bluehawaii0007]

@@thelegendoof8744 I don't care what country you're from. Instead, think about why my posts were deleted. This is proof enough that the creator of this video is a Chinese agent.

[@bluehawaii0007]

Oh dear. My posts that were deleted once have somehow been resurrected. I guess they delete posts unilaterally because they're going to be found out to be spies. Anyway, the missionaries in Nanjing have been slandering Japan since the Protestant Church decided to fully cooperate with the Chinese Nationalist Party, but if you look at their diaries and letters, you can see that in addition to "anti-Japanese propaganda," there are also "many passages that show that there were no massacres." For example, the book of spy Timperley states that the Japanese army continued the massacres for three days from December 13th to 15th, 1937. However, in a letter to his family, Lewis Smythe wrote, "Tuesday morning, December 14th, we awoke feeling that the fighting was over," telling them that the morning had come without a single gunshot. Minnie Vautrin's diary also states, "At 4:30 p.m. on December 14th, I went to Shuiximen in the southern part of Nanjing in a car belonging to Mills of the International Committee to check on the safety of church members at their homes. However, nothing unusual happened and on the way back we only saw one dead body near Hillcrest School." This shows that the story of the massacre was a complete fabrication.

[@oiltycoonbillionaire]

​@@bluehawaii0007actual schizoid

[@MsRadred6116]

I know you warned us Simon, but I did absolutely cry watching this. May we never forget the innocent taken in the name of war. 🥺

[@Sh4dowgale]

THANK YOU for not watering down the survivor testimonies. For people to truly comprehend the horrors of Nanjing, these testimonies need to be told in full. No sugarcoating.

[@Lilgrey1227]

Good work Simon, we love and appreciate your work as a journalist and informant of history and many other things

[@Asiansxsymbol]

My grandfather was half Vietnamese, half French, and he told that the Japanese came to his town in Vietnam and klld most people in the town. He and his family were able to run away beforehand, and when he came back, he saw the results.

[@cheeriototoro8063]

It’s horrific that the Japanese government to this day still has not formally apologised and the education system downplays or ignored it.

[@aaaaaaaaa5147]

It is not diplomatically correct to apologize at a stage when no credible conclusion has been reached as to whether it really happened and, if so, what it was about and how much damage it caused.

[@cheeriototoro8063]

@@aaaaaaaaa5147 are you saying this didn’t happen? 💀

[@aaaaaaaaa5147]

@@cheeriototoro8063 Basically, the Japanese recognize the incident. However, the details are still open to debate. By the way, it is strange that the Chinese government, which many people usually dislike, fully supports its claims on this matter.

[@cheezymacaroni2841]

⁠@@aaaaaaaaa5147 Theres really not a lot that’s open to debate when you’re looking at the mountain of evidence; witness testimonies from both Japanese and Chinese perspectives, photos and imageries from the event, journal and diary entries, news paper articles and the literal memorial museum that is built upon the grave of the innocent civilians slain by the Japanese army. Its baffling how some people still refuses to look at the truth when faced with the evidence. It is a part of history and theres no point in denying it. Whether the Japanese government will ever accept it, is up to their own conscience, when the people fully know what happened in World War 2

[@cheezymacaroni2841]

@@aaaaaaaaa5147You also make references to how the Chinese government fully supports this claim despite being in controversy in modern times. However, the rest of Asia also know the atrocities that were committed by Japan during the war. South Korea, Vietnam, Malaysia, Singapore, Papua and even Australia. When all these countries are supporting the same claims that China is supporting, maybe its time to accept the truth?

[@poisontoad8007]

An ongoing crime is Japan continues to deny, revise outright lie about this. They've given a half-hearted apology to all the women they forced into 'comfort' (what a disgusting term for rape) but that's it. It's basically ignored in Japanese schools. It's disgusting.

[@rylansato]

As a teacher in Japan, it’s very annoying how much they brush over in this era. They cover the basics but no where in depth as it should be. To be fair, even in America they don’t do much teaching of the pacific theater aside from the basics. I’ve talked with Japanese social studies teachers and they said they want to teach real history but they’re at the mercy of the ministry of education and aren’t allowed to deviate at all.

[@beershits9340]

I mean when are we going to collectively acknowledge that all governments in this world have done horrible things and that collectively as a species we are all equally horrible?? There will never be true peace in this world until we can do that

[@poisontoad8007]

I respectfully disagree. Taking responsibility for and owning the fact your side committed atrocities is the first step.

[@themerchant9037]

hey, we deal with the same thing in america, only differently, as we dont necessarily "deny" it in a typical sense, we just simply not talk about it in even the basics of class, here is the thing, in my schools at least, the class was never called history class, it was just called "social studies" and another thing, in elementary school they "taught" us 9/11, however all they said was "people got hurt, planes crashed into major populated areas" but was never taught how many people died, who was behind it, or even the mere fact that it was a targeted terror attack@@rylansato

[@张三-n9j8j]

​@DynamicMoment-dl2xxHypocritical Japanese whitewasher

[@whiteshark450]

Thank you for telling the Nanjing story. My grandmother is a ww2 survivor in Sichuan. Please if possible do the Koreans, the filipinos and all the other asians that suffered brutal atrocity committed by the japanese.

[@PatriciaFreddy]

Im glad you are bringing up this very crucial historical point. Thank you.

[@jennyquan3045]

Thank you so much for making this video. This is still such an ‘unknown’ part of history to many

[@KAGdesignsDOTnet]

imagine being so brutal that even the Nazis think you've gone too far 🙄

[@thelastdefenderofcamelot5623]

Imagine being so dumb you believe everything you are told.

[@BenEberts]

Amazing to me that the atrocities of the Japanese are often overlooked when discussing WWII. Thank you for this video.

[@jellyjitters]

Thank you so much for sharing this for the world to know. My grandparents shared the horrors of the massacre with me and I always thought this would be a historical event that people would forget. This needs to be remembered as one of the worst human rights violations in the history of human kind alongside other genocides across our world. We need to pass this on to future generations to remember and prevent. Some genocides are remembered more than others but I think we need to bring more awareness to how many communities and countries have been impacted by war crimes and violence 😢 please don’t forget.

[@titlingur2009]

These kind of videos are why i subscribed to this channel in the first place. To learn the absolute heartbreaking horror humans inflict on each other. This massacre is truly one the worst, just hearing what the survivors went trough is bone chilling.

[@PeterCombs]

Thank you Simon, a story that is rarely ever told today outside of China

[@tsartomato]

rabe 2009

[@PositivePeteOffical]

And told so well! Buy a wallet!

[@billhacks]

@@PositivePeteOffical what is your deal? you have a problem with people having sponsors or something? trolling the comment section just makes you look like an idiot.

[@LockandLoad79]

Not really. In 'western' countries perhaps. In south east asia the story, more or less, the same.

[@jtmassecure4488]

@@LockandLoad79how do know that just curious

[@krisbk21]

To Simon and the cast, thank you. I know its often hard for you even on The Casual Criminalist to go into the gore and extreme dark details. That you chose to list the details exactly as given, we all know was hard. And we thank you, for honoring those witnesses by not censoring there stories at all. You, and youre cast, are legends in this regard.

[@kerenine1113]

Thank you for putting this video together. This part of history needs to be heard and known.

[@Rift2123]

Now this was some fricken journalism great job crew behind the camera an proper respect given by Simon too as host great vid all sorry about your monetization on this one but the work shows the extra effort made here

[@Milkytan]

All of the axis powers seem to have been pure evil, but the stories I've heard about the Japanese are especially brutal. Both my grandpa and his father were imprisoned in Japanese pow camps, his father died there and my grandpa was definitely incredibly mentally scarred. I've heard my father talk to a museum guard about their parents/grandparents during Japanese occupation in Indonesia and those stories... They nailed a literal fetus to a door... It's horrific. With how loved Japan is nowadays it feels so unreal to hear these stories. War truly is the most terrifying kind of horror, humans can be so evil.

[@abcdef-cs1jj]

Well, the axis powers lost the war. I can guarantee you that if they won, you'd hear people everywhere sing their praises and telling you how the allies were 'pure evil'. Not because it is true but because people love a story and victors write history. Truth is neither all of the people comprising the axis nor all of the people comprising the allies were evil. On both sides many were good men and women, many were morally grey and many were evil. Life isn't a cartoon. Powers aren't build around good or evil. The Japanese governement tried to rise to the hegemon of east Asia. Was that evil? Maybe. But realising that these men acted not least out of a fear of Japan being ruled by foreign (western) powers makes this somewhat understandable - with these western allies holding vast lands in east Asia in colonial chains. When Japan last had tried to keep to itself and not look outside of her borders, the country was forcibly 'opened', resulting in a civil war ... Add to that that the men deciding the political moves did not order the actions of each and every Japanese soldier, of course. I'll not defend rape, murder or other attrocities. I hate evil as much as many people do. But I think that the group think that labels whole demographics as 'enemies' and often subsequently worth killing is the EXACT thing that makes good people look away and morally grey people shrug when evil people take the opportunity and act like that.

[@theduck2970]

Japan has both directly and indirectly sanitized their history for their own citizens and for non-Japanese alike. This is why even Japanophiles (hardcore fans of Japanese culture) will defend Japan's past because they are not aware of the complete story. This even extends to Japanese history before WW2, like samurai are considered honorable and merciful nowadays when in reality, they were vicious and merciless.

[@samolevski1119]

Why not ask yourself why Japan is loved nowadays - then ask yourself if it would still be loved had their victims included millions of a certain nationality. That certain religion/nationality ensures the world remembers their suffering above all others. It is for a similar reason that Hollywood never made a blockbuster film about the massacres of Assyrians and Armenins by Turkish muslims....... Hollywood isn't full of those particular peoples, so the world only gets the suffering of a certain group shoved in our faces for year after year.

[@Jp-do9ny]

Lol only the axis powers? Maybe you should read about the allies and soviet bolsheviks more

[@Milkytan]

@@Jp-do9ny literally every country in the world has done evil shit. Maybe you should just read what it says and not insert your own words like "only", it doesn't say "only the axis powers"

[@Grouuumpf]

The story around 11:00 hit me quite hard. That officer's wife very likely knew exactly what was going to happen, and it sounds like she purposely intervene to sacrifice herself to the soldiers lust, so young girls would have a chance... Chilling

[@TOGade-dj6jh]

This massacre was truly horrific. I’ve seen some documentaries about it and the Japanese soldiers interviewed in one of them is truly disturbing. One of the soldiers pulled out a bunch of black and white photos and shows them to the reporter, he is laughing and grinning as he shows these macabre pictures of women in extremely heinous situations. He proudly explains that he raped and murdered every woman in the pictures. Even in his old age he had absolutely no remorse for what they had done to the Chinese.

[@miaomiaochan]

Good god. I had no idea these interviews existed. When an entire race or ethnicity is dehumanized to this extent, this is what happens.

[@erinhutson5548]

Thank you for doing this video. Especially given how much Simon suffers for doing them. I first read about this in Iris Chang’s article, and I couldn’t believe how brutal human beings could be to other humans. I’ve since learned that brutality based on dehumanization and “racial superiority” is nauseatingly common. There’s been an increase in fascism and nationalism that I find terrifying- especially since atrocities like the holocaust and the rape of Nanjing are the end result of these policies and beliefs. Considering what’s going on in the world right now, this content is necessary and relevant. I want to thank Simon and his team for putting it out there.

[@PositivePeteOffical]

THank you for your comment, please buy a wallet on the way out.

[@张三-n9j8j]

​@FlowingValleyHypocritical Japanese whitewasher

[@robertoflores9080]

Absolutely horrible and gut wrenching. Had tears in my eyes as I powered through hearing this till the end. Doesn't matter what race or religion you profess, you can only think about these people and their families and then, think about your own mothers, fathers, wives, husbands and children if they would ever have to go through something like this.

[@adeleennis2255]

To be fair to Rabe, he joined the Nazi Party in it’s very early days. He also lived in China for over a decade before the Nanjing Massacre. He didn’t see what the Nazis became until after Nanjing. He was truly surprised by the lack of German support in intervening with the Japanese in Nanjing. Rabe was actually supposed to leave on a ship with his wife, but stayed behind at the last moment. He sheltered over 600 Chinese in his house and gardens. The Japanese did make incursions into the Safety Zone. Kidnappings, rapes, and murders by the Japanese still happened there, but, overall, it was the safest place in Nanjing at the time.

[@firemarshal2629]

Came here to say this. Not ever member of the Nazi party was racist. Some were just Germans that wanted their homeland back.

[@kokona1990]

I knew a Japanese guy from uni. Nice person, a bit shy, really polite, and willing to make friends all the time. Another friend of mine, who is Chinese used to hang out with him all the time. One day they somehow exchanged their opinions on WW2 and the Japanese guy was certain that his country did not commit a war crime during that period and all these massacre businesses were hoaxes! Knowing him, I am convinced that he was taught in that way growing up.

[@sara.cbc92]

Japanese education are taught basically one sentence about the Nanjing massacre, which is conveniently called incident. Basically, Japanese troops came into the city and there was a "Nanjing Incident." Talk about white washing lol. That's East Asia in a nutshell I guess. They have a concept of pride and hierarchy.

[@markdavidmagat9866]

Just wanted to say thank you for putting this out! I did some prior research a few years ago and it's really hard to find stuff. So on the purely educational side, thank you. Also thank you for a pure humanitarian point of view! History is bloody and disgusting and if we want to be better than our past mistakes, we can't sugar coat certain topics! Especially in this day and age of Tigger warnings and such, even though I agree some topics can be, that doesn't apply to all! Especially when talking about real things people went through! This is far from an easy watch, but I think it doesn't just deserve to be heard, it needs to be!

[@Rydonattelo]

We nieve westerners don't understand why China and Korea dont forget this stuff. We think of Japan we think of Anime, video games, robots, schoolgirls and very polite people. They think of Japan they think of war crimes.

[@FYMASMD]

Speak for yourself buddy.🙄

[@fortpark-wd9sx]

The Japs understood the power of force. They got fire-bombed and atom-bombed by the USA and that was how they became polite to Westerners. The Anglo-Western POWs had a different image of Japan before the end of war.

[@hurricanemarigolds2818]

In spite of the Japanese government's attempts to bury these historical crimes, these acts of cruelty clearly did leave an impact even on many modern Japanese citizens, many animes are known for having a level of shocking violence in them that is hard to match, it seems to be a cultural remnant from those days.

[@amyamyamy777]

The facts that schoolgirls are mentioned shows how weird they are!! They always been into this stuff.

[@cyko5950]

I wouldn't say its a fault of the westerners themselves. They were born into times of peace much like myself. I never knew the horrors that occured (school history textbooks don't do it justice). Its unimaginable.

[@fastenbauer]

Once saw an interview with a japanesse soldier from that time. He said that his officers didn't want any babies of mixes decent (The japanesse at the time were super racist). The soldiers avoided that problem by simply killing any woman they were done with.

[@PositivePeteOffical]

One time I stuck a ridge wallet in my butt and it stuck. But I couldn't return it because simon said it was used.

[@AlicesonHarvey-um6lk]

​@@PositivePeteOfficalwhat? How? Why? How could anyone read the comment above which is talking about how soldiers were able to justify the rape and murder of women and teenager girls and that is your reply Words fail me

[@hurricanemarigolds2818]

@@AlicesonHarvey-um6lk Don't mind the troll, as horrific as this video is, I can't help but find this troll's many ridge wallet related comments amusing, it kinda breaks up the monotony & this is one of the most harmless trolls I've seen.

[@AlicesonHarvey-um6lk]

@@hurricanemarigolds2818I have re-read his comment after reading yours -- you are right -- If he wanted to be hurtful he could have said something far worse

[@moratico07]

I just can't imagine how agonizing was to put together this video. Thanks for educating us with so much detail on the horrors of this massacre. This kind of information we need as society to put into proper context cultural decisions and the way a culture evolves.

[@TheKrispyfort]

Thumbs up to Ridge for having integrity to sponsor this video

[@dinosaurwoman]

Thank you so much for telling this story. I hope people will learn that terrorism should not be tolerated, and people still suffer at the hands of horrific humans every single day.

[@isalabella4763]

I really appreciate your choice not to censor the accounts. I’m a rape survivor myself, and while I completely understand such accounts being difficult to stomach, real people had to go through this. It’s important to see it for the full horror of what it is. Thank you.

[@shegone7760]

Omg finally a video from simon on this. I've known about the massacre since my college days where i tasked myself with writing an essay about dark history. The only book i could find at the time was iris chang's book and let me say, i took a whole class about the various genocides, mass murders, annihilations, and ethnic cleansings that have occured across the continents, but nothing sticks with me more than the harrowing stories and images that came out of nanjing.

[@elisabethblackwood3921]

this is such an important video, thank you for making this story better known.

[@PositivePeteOffical]

I get all my history sponsored by a wallet.

[@そーりー-x9g]

As a Japanese, its so sad to me that most Japanese people dont really know about this atrocity.

[@Leo.de99]

It’s so different for us Germans. We hear all these atrocities all the time

[@emeraldbreeze5204]

You never know that since 1950, the Chinese Communist Army massacred a total of 1.2 million Tibetans, and between 1966 and 1976, they massacred over 100,000 Mongolians and over 200,000 Guangxi Zhuangs.

[@bananasaur5209]

@@emeraldbreeze5204 Ok, and?

[@emeraldbreeze5204]

@@bananasaur5209 The Chinese Communist Party is trying to erase their huge genocide from history.

[@TheSarcasticOne88]

@@emeraldbreeze5204 source?

[@luminyam6145]

We must never forget this. I told my children and now I plan to tell my grandchildren.

[@gaborweber4356]

Love your content, for me you impressed me with your intellectual approach to everything as well your friendly style .

[@aeg_125]

Thank you Simon for posting the real, un-sanitized truth about the massacre at Nanking and for honoring the survivors by not censoring them. I know it’s not cheap to make high quality content like this and that KZbin will punish it. Much appreciated and much love and respect.

[@nicholasallee3218]

Thank you for not “sanitizing” it.

[@andrewplunkett9494]

Im currently reading the book "The rape of Nanking" by Iris Chang. It is truly a horrific read that delves further into the history, the acts of cruelty and cover up/propaganda. Its also rumoured that her research into the book was one of the reasons she took her own life.

[@bluehawaii0007]

``The Rape of Nanjing'' is a propaganda book written by Iris Chan by the Chinese anti-Japanese organization ``Global Alliance for Preserving the History of WW II in Asia.''

[@nicholasschroeder3678]

I read it and watched her Booknotes interview. While articulate, she looked disturbingly traumatized. I think it was too much for her.

[@bwines16]

Someone, maybe about a year ago?, found a photo album full of photos of when her grandfather was over there during all of this. She took it to a historian to look at but I never saw anything after. She obviously couldn’t post the photos online due to the graphic nature. But she had just stumbled upon a trove of never seen photos of one of the worst atrocities in history. Something that should belong in a museum I’m sure. Now I’m curious how that all played out.

[@三十而立立不立]

他把照片捐赠给了我们的博物馆，我们非常感激，他是一个高尚的绅士，在拍卖行工作，知道历史，尊重历史和背后的意义。之后我们的外交官找到他，送给这位先生很珍贵的礼物

[@bwines16]

@@三十而立立不立 I wish I could read that. Won’t let me copy to translate or give me an option to.

[@0xdegen876]

On mobile it will allow you to translate the comment.b​@@bwines16

[@michaelwhitacre8499]

This is part of the reason why Obama should never had apologized for the bombings of Nagasaki and Hiroshima. People today don't realize how absolutely EVIL the Japanese imperial army was during the Pacific theater. I'll never understand why most people won't even bother learning history

[@BloodyKnives66]

Most of his voters didn't know history anyway. They just went along with his rants.

[@Michelle-rdz17]

Well the innocent people in those cities had nothing to do with what their government was doing in their colonies, that’s like condemning the modern British or western European populations of today for what their governments did to others in the past. It’s time for people to move past it.

[@kuatojones6950]

​@@Michelle-rdz17maybe, but Japan was losing the war due to Germany surrendering and the soviet's closing in from Manchuria. America had a plan to invade Japan but the Japanese were going to have every woman and child fighting with sharp sticks to the death. You can argue that using two atomic bombs was more humane, killing a fraction of what an invasion would do. Not to mention if Russia got there first they would do to Japan what Japan did to China. It's easy to sit there and say "those poor civilians" but Japan got a story book ending compared to what could have happened.

[@Aahhabdnd]

I disagree. Two wrongs don’t make a right. It is important to take accountability.

[@wuuna4575]

@@kuatojones6950where did you got it from that the japanese would have even the women and children fight to the death? Curious. Even so, they were still innocent. Saying that it’s more humane because of what could’ve happen (that didn’t happen) is just trying to justify nuking 2 of the most populated cities filled with innocents. Why not at least choose the military as targets instead? For maximum psychological effect? So I disagree, they were innocent when they died, and what you’re saying is just trying to justify killing them.

[@johnsteve1789]

There was still so much cruelty and horror left out of this, if you want an even better understanding, read the book "the rape of Nanking" by Iris Chang. Or you can listen to Jocko Willinks podcast episode where he reads a bit of the book. It was absolutely one of the hardest things iv'e ever listened to. Goes deeper into the atrocities than this vid has time to. A LOT more details. More people need to learn about this.

[@venomous7321]

When I learned about this in school it was called “the rape of nanjing”

[@weirdshibainu]

The title probably wouldn't make it past YT censors, but that it the true name.

[@InquisitorXarius]

@@weirdshibainu Agreed

[@Jdjdjdujakzgsha]

It’s still called that. Don’t blame the channel for changing it in the title, KZbin censorship is a bitch.

[@venomous7321]

@@Jdjdjdujakzgsha I didn’t mean to blame the channel. Just wanted to point out how we call it a rape instead of a massacre. In a way it’s both

[@Aahhabdnd]

@@venomous7321it’s utterly baffling to me how someone could be so damn disgusting. I legitimately can’t wrap my head around it.

[@ThanxNo]

Thank you for this. My sister is from Nanjing and when she and I traveled back to see the city from which she was adopted, we made a point to go to the memorial

[@stukame1]

Thank you for making this video.

[@brianmclain32]

Rabe is likely the best example of what happens when you live outside of your own bubble and experience the world

[@TheLordPolar]

History should never be hidden, replaced, or changed. Least we forget it and repeat our mistakes of the past.