Nanking Massacre gave a summarized description of what happened in the city:.
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13 Facts About Nanking Massacre
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Picture that they painted of Nanking Massacre was one of a reign of terror that befell the city upon its occupation by the Japanese military forces.
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Nanking Massacre heard waves of machine-gun fire and witnessed the Japanese soldiers gun down some two hundred Chinese within ten minutes.
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Nanking Massacre was promoted to the rank of general in August 1939, though he held no further military commands.
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In early 1980s, after interviewing Chinese survivors and reviewing Japanese records, Japanese journalist Honda Katsuichi claimed that the Nanjing Nanking Massacre was not an isolated case, and that Japanese atrocities against the Chinese were common throughout the Lower Yangtze River since the battle of Shanghai.
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Nanking Massacre's claims have been corroborated with the diaries of other Japanese combatants and medics who fought in China.
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Nanking Massacre further argued that he had directed his army division commanders to discipline their troops for criminal acts, and was not responsible for their failure to carry out his directives.
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Nanking Massacre was found guilty of war crimes, sentenced to death, and executed by shooting on 26 April 1947.
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Nanking Massacre offered his apology to all survivors and to the relatives and friends of the victims.
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Nanking Massacre alleged it would have been impossible to kill so many people in such a short period of time.
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Yoshida has argued that the Nanjing Nanking Massacre has figured in the attempts of all three nations as they work to preserve and redefine national and ethnic pride and identity, assuming different kinds of significance based on each country's changing internal and external enemies.
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Nanking Massacre is sometimes compared to other disasters in China, which include the Great Chinese famine and the Cultural Revolution.
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