Nanjing Massacre: Quick Facts

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Facts

Also Known As	Nanking Massacre • Rape of Nanjing
Date	December 1937 - January 1938
Location	China • Nanjing
Participants	China • Empire of Japan
Context	Marco Polo Bridge Incident • Xi’an Incident • Second Sino-Japanese War • World War II

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Nanjing Massacre Memorial Hall

Japanese troops enter Nanjing

Japanese forces in captured Nanjing

Destruction in Nanjing

Newspaper report on the “100-man killing contest”

Chinese prisoners of war near Nanjing

Victims of the Nanjing Massacre

Memorial to child victims of the Nanjing Massacre

Mother and infant memorial sculpture

Memorial pool at the Nanjing Massacre memorial in China, with visitors walking along pathways and a tall statue reflected in the water on an overcast day.

How John Rabe Saved Lives During the Nanjing Massacre

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Topics

Chinese Communist Party War crime Nationalist Party