In December of 1937, the Japanese Imperial Army marched into China's capital city of Nanjing (English spelling Nanking) and proceeded to murder 300,000 out of 600,000 civilians and Chinese soldiers in the city. The six weeks of carnage would become known as the Rape of Nanking (Nanjing) or the The Nanjing (Nanking) Massacre.
Title cards describe scenes. Scenes of civilian victims, men, women and children, of military brutality, with title cards describing their wounds. Japanese troops on horseback, Japanese soldiers marching into city, Japanese military patrolling city, view of city showing destroyed and damaged buildings, Japanese tanks entering city in snowstorm.
Scenes Include: war crimes, atrocities, Chinese refugees fleeing city, International Relief Committee, women refugees, dead and wounded in street, Japanese attack on China, Japanese military. Japan-China war, civilian victims of war, Chinese families.
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