Yes, we know about the Holocaust, and German atrocities during World War Two. We know about Mao's Cultural Revolution and Stalin's Gulag Archipelago and the Killing Fields. Many are not so familiar with another one of the greatest atrocities to occur during the 20th Century. Estimates are put at a staggering 19 million Chinese who died as a result of the Japanese invasion prior and during World War Two. Their brutality was almost beyond comprehension.... an orgy of rape, torture and murder which was so brutal that even the Nazis were appalled. With Nanking, the Japanese soldiers, acting on orders to spare no one, were probably seeking to terrify the rest of China into submission by making an example of the civilians in Nanking.
Chinese men and women were used for bayonet practice and decapitation contests. Babies were tossed into vats of boiling water. In a secret laboratory called Ei1644 Japanese scientists injected Chinese captives with poisons, germs, and lethal gasses. Methods of killing included hanging victims by their tongues on iron hooks, and burying civilians waist deep to be torn apart by German Shepherds. The worst atrocities were inflicted against Chinese women. Many of the victims were brutally tortured to death after being raped.
Nazis in Nanking at the time called the Japanese atrocities the work of a "bestial machinery."
