From December 1937 to January 1938, Japanese soldiers raped up to 80,000 and killed at least 200,000 in Nanking
From December 1937 to January 1938, Japanese soldiers raped up to 80,000 and killed at least 200,000 in Nanking, China in one of history's worst — and most overlooked — massacres.
From captives being used for bayonet practice to civilians being buried alive in mass graves, victims of the Nanking Massacre suffered unspeakably brutal deaths. Women and children were often raped before they were killed, and some rape victims were sodomized with bamboo sticks and bayonets until they died in agony. Even some pregnant mothers were sliced open.
Though many in China expected consequences for these brutal war crimes after World War II ended in 1945, few high-ranking Japanese generals were punished. The Japanese government didn't officially apologize for the Nanking Massacre and other World War II-era atrocities until 1995, and even that relatively recent apologetic stance hasn't been unanimous and universal. In recent decades, dozens of Japanese officials have refused to accept responsibility for the Nanking Massacre, with some downplaying or even outright denying the horrific

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