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The author keeps comparing these atrocities to the Holocaust and contemplating why we know so much about the Holocaust and so little about The Rape of Nanking. In addition to her thoughts, I can’t help but wonder, what if historians (typically men, historically) simply do not care much about women being raped.
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Ingrid Ellis
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Gosh I shouldn’t read this before bed. Content warning: violence.
“soldiers impaled babies on bayonets and tossed them still alive into pots of boiling water.”
And the Yangtze river literally ran red with blood…
— 17 hours, 24 min ago
“soldiers impaled babies on bayonets and tossed them still alive into pots of boiling water.”
And the Yangtze river literally ran red with blood…
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“So sickening was the spectacle that even the Nazis in the city were horrified…”
“Hitler killed about 6 million Jews, and Stalin more than 40 million Russians, but these deaths were brought about over some few years. In the Rape of Nanking the killing was concentrated within a few weeks.”
— Feb 03, 2026 06:30PM
“Hitler killed about 6 million Jews, and Stalin more than 40 million Russians, but these deaths were brought about over some few years. In the Rape of Nanking the killing was concentrated within a few weeks.”
