During the period of War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, the Republic of China lost in the defence of Nanjing, and the capital Nanjing fell 1937 12 13. Under the command of the commander of the Central China Dispatching Army Matsui Shigen and the head of the Sixth Division Gu Shoufu, the Japanese invaders carried out bloody atrocities such as organized, planned and premeditated slaughter, adultery, arson and robbery in Nanjing and its vicinity for six weeks.

In the Nanjing Massacre, a large number of civilians and prisoners of war were killed by the Japanese army, and countless families were fragmented. The number of people killed in the Nanjing Massacre exceeded 300,000.

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After the Nanjing Massacre:

1, bombing

At 8: 00 a.m. on September 1, 15, 17, the alarm went off, and the observation tower of jiangyin fortress reported that a large number of enemy planes were flying to jiangyin from the downstream! All naval gunners are in position. A few minutes later, I saw a huge fleet of 33 enemy planes flying southwest at an altitude of 3000 meters.

At about 9: 20, the alarm sounded again. The navy saw that the enemy plane flying west 1 hour ago was returning at random, and it was expected to be defeated by our air force, so it "saw off" with a gun.

The enemy plane was in shock, unwilling to fight again, didn't fire a shot, didn't throw a bullet, and all fled east at high speed. At 2: 30 pm, there was another alarm, and 28 enemy planes were seen, which were defeated by China Air Force in Nanjing. This time, the fleet did not dare to fly along the river, bypassing the effective range of China's anti-aircraft gun fire and returning.

2. Massacre

Encouraged by their officers, Mukai Toshiak and Noda Takeshi, two second lieutenants of Nakajima Army in the 16 Division of the Japanese Army, met in a "killing contest" and agreed who would kill 65,438+000 people first when they occupied Nanjing.

10 February 10 At noon, they met at the foot of Purple Mountain, and their sabres had been cut off from each other. Noda claimed to have killed 105 people, and Xiang Jing claimed to have killed 106 people. Because we are not sure who killed 100 first, we decided to hold a rematch in this competition to see who killed China 150 first.

3. Cultural plunder

According to the survey, after the Japanese invaders occupied Nanjing, they sent 330 spies, 367 soldiers and 830 hard laborers. From March 65438 to March 0938, in a month's time, more than a dozen trucks of books and documents were removed every day, and * * * snatched 880,000 books and documents, exceeding the 850,000 books of Ueno Imperial Library, the largest library in Japan at that time.

4. Robbery and arson

Robbery and arson caused serious property losses. The report of Nanjing International Relief Committee said: "3 1% buildings in Nanjing were burned down; The proportion of shops destroyed is high; The direct losses caused by the destruction and robbery of the Japanese army amounted to 654.38 billion French francs; The rural areas along the roads around Nanjing were completely looted and fell into the predicament of lack of seeds, livestock, work and tools. The amount of grain sown is only 65,438+00% of the normal year.

References:

Baidu Encyclopedia-Nanjing Massacre