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The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War ll by Iris Chang. This is purported to be the first complete account of the Japanese atrocity in China at the end of 1937, where some 250,000 to 350,000 unarmed Chinese citizens were tortured, humiliated, experimented upon, and then slaughtered in horrific fashion by Japanese soldiers, all within about a 6 week period in the city of Nanking. It is also estimated during this same time-frame that between 30,000 and 80,000 women were raped, many of which were then disemboweled or otherwise horrifically disfigured. This is still a contentious issue as the official opinion of the Japanese is that the affair was either horribly exaggerated or even fabricated in totum. So far so good. Ashe.
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