I found this on SnagFims, a documentary, as told through various actors and actresses , about how 15 Westerners in Nanking established a Safety Zone, shielding many Chinese from death.

A long film, but filled with actual scenes, showing the brutal atrocities the Japanese Army did to the people in Nanking.

Perhaps not the usual Sig Forum fare, but worth a watch to learn how horrible that event was.

The link to Snag Films and Nanking:

http://www.snagfilms.com/films/title/nanking

Mrs. Lee is from Nanjing (formerly Nanking). I'll be going there for the fifth time in a few weeks. If you ever get there, you must visit the museum on the massacre. It's excellent. Ditto for Iris Chang's book.

I was surprised at how much film footage was shown. I would think most was filmed by Japanese cameramen. However, you would think they would not want to have had those killings recorded.

To Rick Lee
Hope you have a safe trip.

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I would think most was filmed by Japanese cameramen. However, you would think they would not want to have had those killings recoreded.

My guess is that since they were confident in their ultimate victory, no need to worry about the repercussions. This was years before the possibility of a true "world war" against formidable enemies was even on the Japanese radar.

I watched the complete film. It was truly a grim and gruesome event showing how cruel the Japanese were during that period in time. The citizens of China had no way to protect themselves. The amount of firearms in the hands of our citizens at the time was one of the deciding factors not to invade our country by the Japanese.

During my time in Korea (1958-9), I spoke with many Koreans who suffered during the 40 year Japanese occupation of Korea.

None had anything good to say about the Japanese.

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During my time in Korea (1958-9), I spoke with many Koreans who suffered during the 40 year Japanese occupation of Korea.

None had anything good to say about the Japanese.

American servicemen held in Japanese prisoner of war camps were treated more cruelly than their counterparts in other prisoner of war camps in WWII.

Ill will from many Asian countries the Japanese occupied during WWII continues today.
There are many other good documentaris in Snag Films website, if you weed out the Social Justice films.

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None had anything good to say about the Japanese.

When I was stationed in Korea in the early 1970s, the Korean bartender at one of the clubs posted a still shot photo from the movie “Tora! Tora! Tora!” showing the approach of a Japanese plane over Pearl Harbor. If anyone mentioned Japan, he would just turn and point to the picture.

I was reading yesterday about "hell ships." These were ships used to transport Allied POWs to Japan. Not only were the conditions on the ships hellish, causing a great deal of misery and death, but a number of them got torpedoed by US submarines, whose commanders had no way of knowing there were POWs aboard.

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Thank you , Sunset, for this link. Very sad but everyone should watch this at least once. mike

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I was reading yesterday about "hell ships." These were ships used to transport Allied POWs to Japan. Not only were the conditions on the ships hellish, causing a great deal of misery and death, but a number of them got torpedoed by US submarines, whose commanders had no way of knowing there were POWs aboard.

Yes, and as the ships started going down, on some ships the seamen slammed the hatches shut, so all the POW's would go down with the ship.

Just got finished watching. Most descriptive story of Nanking I ever saw. Horrific.

One of my favorite sayings is, “No good deed goes unpunished”. That was certainly the case of the Nazi officer. It seems the American woman who ran the girls school was suffering severe PTSD until she killed herself on the one year anniversary of her return home.