1937 12 13. Japanese troops occupied Nanjing. Under the instigation and command of Japanese Central Army Matsui Shigen, Zhao Xianggong, Jiuyanwang and Gu Shoufu, the Japanese army burned, killed and looted Nanjing for six weeks. More than 300,000 civilians and captured soldiers in China were collectively shot, burned, buried alive and killed in other ways. At the same time, one third of the houses in Nanjing were burned, almost all the shops were robbed, and the property losses were countless. The Japanese army carried out a planned and large-scale mass massacre in Nanjing, killing hundreds, thousands or even tens of thousands of people at a time.
In order to cover up the crime, the Japanese army tightly blocked the news, burned the bodies and destroyed the evidence. However, there are still many just people, international friends and foreign journalists who give humanitarian aid to women and children in China regardless of their lives. At the same time, the atrocities witnessed by the Japanese army were recorded in the form of diaries, letters and news photos, and announced to the world. The New York Times, Chicago Daily News, etc. disclosed the barbaric crimes committed by the Japanese army in Nanking in time, which caused shock and condemnation all over the world. The atrocious crimes committed by the Japanese army in Nanjing are appalling crimes against humanity and a very dark page in human history. The Nanjing Massacre was a heinous crime committed by the Japanese invaders against the people of China.