13 December 1937
Massacre
20,000 Chinese men are marched out of the city & used for bayonet practice
Historical place archive
Browse historical events and people recorded at Nanking in Japan. The records below are rendered directly from the World History Database into this page's initial HTML.
20,000 Chinese men are marched out of the city & used for bayonet practice
20,000 women & girls are gang raped by the Japanese, male prisoners are shot. 20,000 Chinese men are marched out of the city & used for bayonet practice. 1st day of the rape of Nanking, orderred by Asaka
Helps oversee Japanese looting
Helps oversee Japanese looting
Japan captures Nanking, killing 200,000 civilians
A puupet Japanese Government is established in Japan
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