everyone goes on about what happened to jews during the war?

Question

but what about the rape of nanking?so many people were killed and women and children were raped and murdered and left lying in the street.does anyone have anything to say about it?

i just wanted to know what people thought about it.every masacre is abhorent.its just that ive been reading about them in a book and was touched by the nanking story

Answer 1

The Rape of Nanking was one of the worst atrocities ever committed by one people on another people.

For some reason or another it has been very poorly publicised and questioned.

I am not saying that the Jews deserved what they got, but a thing that has always amazed me, watching newsreels, is that
thousands of Jews, who must have realised there was something seriously wrong, allowed themselves to be driven into these situations by a handful of armed soldiers.


I would like to think that British people would deal with this situation a different way.

Answer 2

Atrocities and war crimes are part of the insanity that IS war !
And, none of these that are committed should be overlooked -- however, there is no comparison of a single campaign of outright slaughter and mayhem to the ongoing, systematic, and brutal Policies that led to six million innocents being starved, tortured endlessly, worked to death, and murdered by dozens of methods over the space of years !!
There are numerous reasons why this event that you are bringing up here was never pursued in "war crimes trials" after the war -- along with hundreds of other "incidents" that were similar !! When it came to the Japanese treaty that ended THAT part of WW2 --- it was viewed that such activities would only complicate the fragile capitulation OF the Japanese culture into a "peace time setting" --- and, the decision had already been made to leave the sitting Emperor in place as a "figurehead" to that culture -- for it was seen as a very risky move to Remove him --- seeing that he was still seen as a living god to that culture of that time --- and they feared his removal would mean the mass suicide of hundreds of thousands of Japanese people !! And, they viewed Much (if not ALL) of what the Japanese Army had done --- as an outright "direct order" FROM the Emperor himself !! This facilitated THOUSANDS of Japanese atrocities and war crimes to go unpunished and unreviewed !!

Answer 3

There are a couple of reasons for this, first the nanking happened a long way away from Europe and as such was out of sight, secondly after the end of the war it was not publicised as much as it should have been.
Thirdly there was a political machine that made the death camps happen, the Jews were not killed on a spur of the moment/heat of battle. They were identified, rounded up, transported and finally killed.

Answer 4

You have only touched the tip of an iceberg. You can actually go to Cambodia and see the killing fields for yourself if you want to. Do you have any idea of how many Montignards were slaughtered after the North took over South Vietnam?? The list goes on and on ya know. Ethnic cleansing has gone on forever.
In a sense the Holocaust has come to represent all of these atrocities, and for that reason alone it should never be forgotten.

Answer 5

Well you can always raise the point for the victims of Nan-king,
but while the Japanese Government still manage to gloss over all the crimes their military committed in this time.

But there is not much point. if the Japanese are not going to admit their guilt, and also acknowledge the wrong done to the people of China, Korea, Malaysia, Indo-China. North Borneo, Dutch East Indies, and numerous other Islands in the Pacific.

Answer 6

yea - loads of people died. the russians suffered the greatest loss of 25 million people. the rape of nanking was horrific. the holocaust is talked about more than nanking because more people died in the holocaust.

Answer 7

Yes, I had plenty to say when I wrote reports on it and also gave a presentation during college. The fact of the matter is, each war is horrific and everyone has suffered, but it's not up to us to go on and on about which one was worse and who's suffered the most. My family went through a genocide in their country, losing over half of their family, but it's not something we often talk about...not because it's too painful (although it was for them) but because we know to move on and enjoy life now, while also trying to educate others about our own experiences.

Answer 8

There was Rwandan genocide. The Armenian Genocide. The British massacre of Indians. The Australian Massacre of Abos. American massacre of Indians. We could go on forever. What makes you think Nanjing is unique or deserving of special mention now?

Answer 9

I think there's a difference in numbers. 6 million Jews were murdered by the Third Reich. Plus, for Europeans, Germany is so close geographically that clearly we focus more on what happened there.

Answer 10

The first casualty of war is the truth and then civilians!