The Nanjing Massacre- the outline of issues.

Abstract

On December 13, 1937, shortly after the Japanese siege, the capital
of the Republic of Nanjing fell, becoming the scene of a macabre massacre. The subordinates of general Matsui Iwane murdered, shot and burned about 200-400 thousand people
and indulged in indescribable rape in women…^[1]- even such laconic information in individual publications is scary with the scale of violence that a person can do to another person.

[1] J. Polit, Chiny, Wydawnictwo TRIO, Warszawa 2004, p.158.