The Rape of Nanking

The Rape of Nanking
Most American schoolchildren have been taught of the gas chambers at Auschwitz and have read at least part of The Diary of Anne Frank. Many are taught about the atomic bombs that the United States dropped on the Japanese cities Hiroshima and Nagasaki. But ask them about the horrors of Nanking and they do not even recognize the city's name. Many adults, even educated adults, are not familiar with this massacre.
In December 1937, the Japanese army invaded the then Chinese capital of Nanking. They systematically raped, tortured, and murdered more than 300,000 Chinese civi…