Nanjing Massacre

Period

1937 – 1938

Region

China

Category

War

The Nanjing Massacre or the Rape of Nanjing 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.

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