The Japanese bury Chinese prisoners alive. The Sino-Japanese War, 1937
The Japanese bury Chinese prisoners alive. The Sino-Japanese War, 1937 The Japanese bury Chinese prisoners of war alive. 1937 Japanese democide-mass murder. Here is shown Chinese prisoners about to be buried alive by Japanese soldiers. Overall, in China during the Second Sino-Japanese War and World War II into which it was merged, the Japanese murdered almost 4,000,000 Chinese and over 2,000,000 others--about 6,000,000 in total In December of 1937, the Japanese Imperial Army marched into China's capital city of Nanking and proceeded to murder 300,000 out of 600,000 civilians and soldiers in the city. The six weeks of carnage would become known as the Rape of Nanking and represented the single worst atrocity during the World War II era in either the European or Pacific theaters of war. The actual military invasion of Nanking was preceded by a tough battle at Shanghai that began in the summer of 1937. Chinese forces there put up surprisingly stiff resistance against the Japanese Army...