The Nanjing Massacre: Unparalleled Horror

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[@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]

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[@blarfroer8066]

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[@user-ln6bn7jr3w]

Just a German diplomat at this point

[@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?

[@artisnotmoney]

I’ve lived and worked in Japan as a teacher for half of my life. Most people have no idea about these things. Younger people have no idea that Japan was allied with Germany and Italy. If you mention anything about WW2 they will say American bombed them for pretty much no reason. Point out the things the Japanese army did and they refuse to believe. It’s a perfect example of a government rewriting history over the course of a few generations. Japan might not remember or might refuse to remember but the rest of Asia remembers and they won’t soon forget.

[@bluehawaii0007]

It seems like you used to live in Japan, but you can't speak Japanese, and it seems like you've never really had any real contact with Japanese people. You don't know how big of a liar Chinese people are. You write as if Japanese textbooks have fabricated history, but the truth is the exact opposite. Stanford University conducted a detailed study of history textbooks from Japan, the United States, China, and South Korea, and found that Japanese textbooks wrote history most objectively. "Nanjing Massacre" is Chinese propaganda. The United States committed genocide by dropping atomic bombs and indiscriminate carpet bombing on Japan, and in order to justify it, they sought out Japan's barbaric acts and certified them using the ``Nanjing Massacre.'' ​

[@godzillafelis1904]

Japan, unlike Germany, was allowed to push their atrocious past under a rug.

[@shineluvslambiel]

@@godzillafelis1904 indeed.

[@FoundationRingsTwice]

For a nation that has such a focus on honour, the Japanese really are cowards when it comes to facing their actions during WW2

[@azurecliff8709]

People around the world 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. These were huge massacres of different ethnic groups that far much exceeded those committed by the Japanese military during the Sino-Japanese War, and the despicable Chinese government is trying to erase them all from history.

[@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]

🤪@@ZijnShayatanica

[@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.

[@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.

[@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.

[@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

[@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.

[@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.

[@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

[@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

[@user-es7zd4ri3c]

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

[@user-ls1er1dk9v]

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

[@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.''

[@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]

​@@DoubleDeuce69Not cool man

[@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.

[@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 ?

[@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.

[@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”

[@just_a_turtle_chad]

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

[@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.

[@mhuntprofessional]

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

[@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.

[@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

[@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.

[@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.

[@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🙏

[@woahblackbetty7691]

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[@hannahbanana3767]

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.​@@hannahbanana3767

[@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.

[@DoubleDeuce69]

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[@weirdshibainu]

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[@weirdshibainu]

@@DoubleDeuce69 WTF

[@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.

[@albertyu750]

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...

[@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.

[@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

[@DoubleDeuce69]

My teacher ran off with a student, but I'm almost certain he didn't own a RIDGE WALLET.

[@maciej9280]

@@DoubleDeuce69 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.

[@KingNoTail]

​@@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.

[@PatriciaFreddy]

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

[@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!

[@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 😮

[@DoubleDeuce69]

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.

[@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.

[@DoubleDeuce69]

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.

[@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.

[@gaborweber4356]

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

[@thomasdahlquist7119]

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.

[@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.

[@DoubleDeuce69]

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.

[@cheeriototoro8063]

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

[@katiehaley2850]

Thank you for tackling this important historical event.

[@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

[@user-su4fe6rc7v]

​@DynamicMoment-dl2xxHypocritical Japanese whitewasher

[@ai3985rghh]

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.

[@DoubleDeuce69]

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

[@hongqingxiang3374]

Thank you very much for your covering this topic🙏

[@PeaceItUp]

I wish that this was a 2 hour video. I feel like this topic could really use a deep dive by your team.

[@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.

[@DoubleDeuce69]

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

[@Pavlos_Charalambous]

@@DoubleDeuce69 at least he doesn't have to make a living by spamming the thread That's really low life

[@user-su4fe6rc7v]

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

[@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.

[@DoubleDeuce69]

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]

​@@DoubleDeuce69you need to visit a Psychiatrist

[@ampur2]

​@@lesliesteele3926wait until you visit Auschwitz Birkenau

[@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

[@stukame1]

Thank you for making this video.

[@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.

[@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.

[@user-qk6og1hy3u]

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

[@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...

[@rionthemagnificent2971]

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

[@thedeesus4249]

Oh my god, I can’t! I knew I shouldn’t try to watch this. Simon is not overstating his heaviness warning at the beginning. Nevertheless, I’m glad you made this video. This is history that must be told. Please keep it up.

[@ytsux9259]

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.

[@jamesaaron4834]

There is so much resentment towards the Japanese because of WW2. My grandma and her sisters (Filipino) were so angry that one of her nieces married a Japanese. This was in the late 90s.

[@sirhenrymorgan1187]

From what I've heard, there's also plenty of anti-Korean sentiment in the Philippines due to Korean troops being part of the Japanese invading force. The Koreans were known to occasionally be even crueler than the Japanese, a trait that would carry over when South Korea invaded Vietnam during the Vietnam war. For what it's worth, as a man of Korean descent, I regret that these things happened. My condolences to the victims of Japanese and Korean atrocities in the Philippines and Vietnam.

[@kimseiberling5263]

I’m sure it’s because some of the people who are still alive. My friends Mother had to suffer through this.

[@DoubleDeuce69]

Most Filipinos couldn't afford a ridge wallet, it's sad really.

[@alvarny77]

If you lived through the war, you would probably react the same way too

[@Lemoonfish]

I understand. My grandpa would be mad to if I marry a Japanese. So would I. I don’t think this hatred will go way in recent years

[@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

[@brianmclain32]

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

[@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.

[@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.

[@user-su4fe6rc7v]

​@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.

[@literallyhuman5990]

I still remember when I watched a story about Nanking Massacre on tv, my late grandpa told me that he knows about the news of the massacre through a newspaper back in the day. He said that the report is so bad and so violent, many people doesn't have the heart to read through it, and many people who reads the new with him called it "Competitive Genocide."

[@kunchen3278]

thank you for covering this

[@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.

[@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.

[@Ms.Doomer]

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.

[@IIAndersII]

The story of the rape victim is absolutely gut wrenching.

[@bluehawaii0007]

You are foolish to believe in Chinese fiction.

[@freyachandra1869]

Thank you so so much for making this video. Not enough people know about this horrific atrocity that occured during ww2. People need to be aware of all of the uncomfortable aspects of history otherwise we're doomed to repeat it.

[@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.

[@user-co6vr9es9n]

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

[@PeterCombs]

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

[@tsartomato]

rabe 2009

[@DoubleDeuce69]

And told so well! Buy a wallet!

[@billhacks]

@@DoubleDeuce69 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

[@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.

[@PlannetuRev]

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.

[@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

[@luminyam6145]

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

[@sarahdisco-dolly1150]

This story brought me to tears

[@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.

[@devstuff2576]

if everybody believed in your ideology of an eye for an eye, you wouldn't exist today.

[@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.

[@TheKrispyfort]

Thumbs up to Ridge for having integrity to sponsor this video

[@chanel777]

Thank you! Not many talk about it

[@racingvitas1788]

I am from Nanjing, thank you for sharing

[@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"

[@Lilgrey1227]

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

[@HappB5]

Thank you for this video Simon.. it means a lot. Could you please do one about the Kanto massacre too? I feel it's relatively less known

[@meganlucas6572]

This is gut wrenching 😢

[@jennyquan3045]

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

[@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. 🥺

[@FoxfireGreen]

A very informative documentary, thank you! Just goes to show there is no more despicable beast than man and that nobility can be found in most unlikely of people. It's actually quite amazing how many psycos are unveiled in terrible situations like this...

[@TrevorLaw-kc7dw]

Modern Day Japan: "There were no Japanese men in Nanjing . . ."

[@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.

[@user-yc8jw8ys2y]

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?

[@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.

[@user-co6vr9es9n]

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]

@@user-co6vr9es9n I wish I could read that. Won’t let me copy to translate or give me an option to.

[@user-ue5hf9rd1i]

gratitude for recounting facts as they were...history is violent but the future can be the light less we forget

[@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

[@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.

[@caesarsalad493]

At first I thought the title was most definitely gonna be an exaggeration. After actually watching the video….it’s definitely not an exaggeration, to say the least… I watch this type of content all the time, but I was NOT prepared for how graphic it was going to be. But it’s opened my eyes further to the reality of these situations. There’s not a word in any language that can describe how truly heartbreaking this is.

[@biogoji8975]

Nice ridge wallet advert at the beginning, really befitting of this type of video

[@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

[@jbielic4067]

I tip my hat to you sir for having the composure to relate this topic so well. It's got to be hard on you emotionally. When you related the story of that poor 12 year old girl; the sadness and rage overwhelmed me man.

[@lizzzz1603]

Thank you for making this video, the Nanjing Massacre is one of the worst war crimes in WWII.

[@justachick9793]

John Rabe is a bizarrely fascinating historical figure. That's the only thing I can say about this video without sobbing. 😢

[@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.