Under the command of the commander of the Central China Dispatching Army Matsui Shigen and the head of the Sixth Division Gu Shoufu, the Japanese invaders carried out bloody atrocities such as organized, planned and premeditated slaughter, rape, arson and robbery in Nanjing and its vicinity for six weeks.
In the Nanjing Massacre, a large number of civilians and prisoners of war were killed by the Japanese army, and countless families were fragmented. The number of people killed in the Nanjing Massacre exceeded 300,000.
Cause losses:
1, cultural plunder
According to the survey, after the Japanese invaders occupied Nanjing, they sent 330 spies, 367 soldiers and 830 hard laborers. From March 65438 to March 0938, in a month's time, more than a dozen trucks of books and documents were removed every day, and * * * snatched 880,000 books and documents, exceeding the 850,000 books of Ueno Imperial Library, the largest library in Japan at that time.
2. Robbery and arson
Robbery and arson caused serious property losses. The report of Nanjing International Relief Committee said: "3 1% buildings in Nanjing were burned down; The proportion of shops destroyed is high;
The direct losses caused by the destruction and robbery of the Japanese army amounted to 654.38 billion French francs; The rural areas along the roads around Nanjing were completely looted and fell into the predicament of lack of seeds, livestock, work and tools. The amount of grain sown is only 65,438+00% of the normal year.