Photos of the Second Sino-Japanese War

by Iron_Cavalry

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  1. [The final toll of the Second Sino-Japanese War was a nightmarish apocalypse, surpassed only in death toll and brutality by Hitler’s genocidal crusade in Eastern Europe.](https://preview.redd.it/atrocities-in-the-china-war-nsfl-v0-6tdeh3ih7g4e1.jpg?width=1389&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=7dcd4ff729ee2ea32999a52cf9daaa71baaea81b)

    Numbers tell the tale: 

    [2,000,000-3,000,000 Chinese soldiers died defending their homes and families. ](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DjRSeVhWwAIn9Rx?format=jpg&name=small)

    500,000-700,000 Japanese soldiers died invading China, as did another 300,000 Chinese collaborators. Another 200,000 Japanese civilians died of various causes, mostly in Manchuria during and after the 1945 Soviet Invasion. 

    [Those that suffered the most, by far, were the *laobaixing,* Chinese civilians](https://preview.redd.it/atrocities-in-the-china-war-nsfl-v0-g0oo3b8x7g4e1.jpg?width=320&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=6abc42364ca380642271a7baf6e4ac8477a28f7d). [At a conservative estimate, some 12,000,000 Chinese civilians died in the eight year war.](https://preview.redd.it/atrocities-in-the-china-war-nsfl-v0-jsej769x7g4e1.jpg?width=320&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=8e5aa5e29aa9f3962fd98a5c89c59f6cd3f3833e

    [Between a quarter and a third](https://preview.redd.it/atrocities-photographed-in-the-second-sino-japanese-war-nsfl-v0-lqo7k95x8wnd1.png?width=1080&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=3efedbcdf1ee7779f335323047d0864d11c17c16), [were children](https://preview.redd.it/the-second-sino-japanese-war-v0-yujhb3sujs4f1.png?width=1080&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=43cf2b8e20d687882346abffc33c0782470ee9b4). 

  2. >“The hundred or more soldiers herded the thirty-eight people to that area and surrounded them. There were two young women in the group, one seventeen and unmarried, and the other pregnant. Both were taken off to separate houses and raped by one “Devil” after another, an ordeal that left them too weak to stand. Having raped the two women, the soldiers turned to arson and mass murder.
    The soldiers rammed a broom into the vagina of the younger woman and then stabbed her with a bayonet. They cut open the belly of the pregnant woman and gouged out the fetus. Three men, unable to bear the sight of the flames consuming their homes, desperately broke through the ring of soldiers and headed off in the direction of the houses. They encountered some other soldiers who were determined not to let them through and forced them into one of the furiously burning houses. Seconds after the soldiers had locked the door from the outside, the roof collapsed in flames on top of the men. 
    A two-year-old boy was bawling loudly in reaction to the noise and confusion. A soldier grabbed him from his mother’s arms and threw him into the flames. They then bayoneted the hysterically sobbing mother and threw her into the creek. The remaining thirty-one people were made to kneel facing the creek. The soldiers stabbed them from behind with their bayonets, twisting the blades to disembowel them, and threw them into the water.” 

    * Honda Katsuichi, The Nanjing Massacre, p. 63-65

    This was the fate of 38 villagers from Nanqiantou, near Wuxi, just three weeks before the fall of Nanjing. They died in the opening chapter of an eight-year war whose wounds have not fully healed to this day. 38 of 15,000,000.

  3. ive never seen photosof japanese soldier using a gas mask in combat, thats really interesting

  4. Their’s nothing nsfw about these pics at all. Damn click bait

  5. The most vicious massacre in the world was occurring in China while the western world wrung its hands over the paltry conflict that was the Spanish Civil War.

    The Nanjing massacre resulted in more deaths than the total losses of both sides of the Spanish Civil War, yet the west still puts the Sino Japanese war in the margins.

    Edit: I’m not trying to downplay war, but after 4 years SCW had about 130k-250k casualties with reports varying widely. In 4 months, about 200k were killed in Nanjing alone.

    Spain was a war of ideas and politics. Sino-japanese conflict, much like the Ukraine war, was built on racial and cultural aggression and domination. A cultural belief in the right to rule over lesser peoples.

  6. Wtf I’m on the mobile web and I can’t read the full descriptions

  7. Unbelievable to imagine the scale of atrocities committed during the Sino Japanese war. It arguably makes the holocaust comparable to this although they S-J war and atrocities get a tenth of the coverage.

  8. > Like the Luftwaffe, the Japanese Air Force unleashes indiscriminate terror bombings against civilians.

    I thought the WW2 factions that did “indiscriminate terror bombings against civilians” included essentially “everyone who had the capacity.” IIRC, the Allies weren’t shy about what they were doing in the air over Europe.

    Of course, “everyone was doing it” doesn’t excuse crimes against humanity. Just worth mentioning that the difference between “V2 terror bombing” and “Allied strategic air bombing” has more to do with capacity than intent.

  9. The amount of war crimes Japan committed during that war is just unfathomable. The Japanese Unit 731 was truly the worst of the worst in humans.

    The Japanese ripping babies out of stomach and injecting them with anthrax and seeing how they reacted to it, The R*pe of Nanking. True horror.

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