Nanjing Massacre

1937–1938 mass murder in China

The Nanjing Massacre or the Rape of Nanjing (formerly romanized as Nanking) was the mass rape and murder, between December 1937 and March 1938, of Chinese civilians, noncombatants, and prisoners of war by the Imperial Japanese Army in Nanjing, the capital of the Republic of China. It took place immediately after the Battle of Nanjing and retreat of the National Revolutionary Army during the Second Sino-Japanese War. After the outbreak of the war in July 1937, the Japanese had pushed quickly through China after capturing Shanghai in November.

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