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Title: Documents on the Rape of Nanking by Timothy Brook ISBN: 0-472-08662-6 Publisher: UMP Pub. Date: 03 December, 1999 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 2.67 (6 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: Good resouce, if you read it in fair mind
Comment: The Documents of the Nanking Safety Zone is a first-class contemporary resource that lets you get the picture of what happened and not happened in Nanking in December 1937.
Members of The International Committee of the Nanking Safety Zone were of anti-Japanese sentiment, but were honest enough to wrote things like that they were unable to separate civilian refugees to the soldiers in civilian clothes hiding in the Safety Zone (that is violation of the International law) although they make protests against Japanese Army assuming these plain-clothes soldiers as "civilians", so executing of those snipers should be illegal to their eyes.
Still, they admitted that [cases 210 to 219] are only the ones [they] have been able to get first hand reports of : (the first two are the cases overlooked in typing up previous reports.)(p118) You can get the picture now. The reports they are making and handing in to the Embassy of Japan were all hearsay. On top of that, most of them were "second-hand" hearsay!
Although they wrote them as if they were witnessed by them, you can see the difference between hearsay and genuinely witnessed event : for instance, case 185 (p78) says ;
"On the morning of January 9, Mr. Kroeger and Mr. Hatz saw a Japanese officer and soldier executing a poor man in civilian clothes....." This was the only one of two "killings" that were actually witnessed ,which was testified by Rev. John G. Magee in the Tokyo Trial. This one was "legitimate execution"(p78), and the other one was a case that a man in civilian clothes who was challenged by a sentry but run away then shot. This was not murder either.
If you are a little careful about these things, you can see everything like Dr. Wilson's letters to Rabe's diary consists of hearsay. Only things they saw were actions related to the battles and its aftermath for most of them the Chinese soldiers are respnsible, not Japanese (Kuomintang propaganda department was very much in action at that time).
Nevertheless, some people still think these documents are the eyewitness evidences of the "Rape of Nanking". I don't know how or why. Maybe for them, the truth of history doesn't matter. But to the Japanese, it matters a lot because we are still on trial for these horrible false accusations.
Rating: 1
Summary: What Really Happened in Nanking?
Comment: If you really need to know, you should read the following books:
What Really Happened in Nanking by Tanaka Masaaki
The Alleged "Nanking Massacre": Japan's rebuttal to China's forged claims by Tadao Takemoto, Yasuo Ohara
Nanking : Anatomy of an Atrocity by Masahiro Yamamoto
Rating: 1
Summary: What Really Happened in Nanking?
Comment: If you are really need to know, you should read the following books:
What Really Happened in Nanking by Tanaka Masaaki
The Alleged "Nanking Massacre": Japan's rebuttal to China's forged claims by Tadao Takemoto, Yasuo Ohara
Nanking : Anatomy of an Atrocity by Masahiro Yamamoto
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Title: The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II by Iris Chang, William C. Kirby ISBN: 0140277447 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: November, 1998 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: The Nanjing Massacre in History and Historiography by Joshua A. Fogel, Charles S. Maier ISBN: 0520220072 Publisher: University of California Press Pub. Date: March, 2000 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: Unit 731 Testimony by Hal Gold ISBN: 4900737399 Publisher: Charles E Tuttle Co Pub. Date: March, 1996 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
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Title: The Good Man of Nanking : The Diaries of John Rabe by John Rabe ISBN: 0375701974 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 14 March, 2000 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Hidden Horrors: Japanese War Crimes in World War II (Transitions--Asia and Asian America) by Yuki Tanaka, Toshiyuki Tanaka, Yukiko Tanaka ISBN: 0813327180 Publisher: Westview Press Pub. Date: January, 1998 List Price(USD): $24.00 |
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