This movie adapted from titled "Nanking". the original movie was first released on February 20th (1938) in Japan.
(IMDB)
http://uk.imdb.com/title/tt0949470/
There are four references to the population of Nanking in late 1937 in Documents of the Nanking Safety Zone; all of them state that the total refugee population was 200,000.11 A report written by James Espy, vice-consul at the American Embassy, and dispatched to the United States, and another report written by John Rabe, chairman of the International Committee, also mention that Nanking's population was 200,000.
However, Frankfurter Zeitung correspondent Lily Abegg, who escaped from Nanking immediately before the city fell, wrote the following in an article dispatched from Hankou.
Last week about 200,000 people left Nanking. One million souls once inhabited the city, but their numbers had dwindled to 350,000. Now there are at most 150,000 people remaining, but waves of evacuees seem interminable.12
Maj. Zhang Qunsi, who was taken prisoner by the Japanese, revealed that there were 50,000 Nanking Defense Corps soldiers and 100,000 noncombatants in the city. Another prisoner, Maj.-Gen. Liu Qixiong, who was later appointed head of the Nanking Military Academy (during Wang Jingwei's administration), and who commanded the brigate that defended the Yuhuatai position, estimated the population of Nanking as "approximately 200,000". In an entry in his war journal dated December 20, Gen. Matsui Iwane, commander-in-chief of the Shanghai Expeditionary Force wrote, "There are 120,000 Chinese in the Refugee Zone, most of them poor people".13
Taking all these sources into account, we can state with certainty that the population of Nanking at the end of 1937 was somewhere between 120,000 and 200,000. We know from contemporaneous records that the members of the Nanking Defense Corps, under the command of Tang Shengzhi, numbered between 35,000 and 50,000. Even allowing for gross underestimates, the population of Nanking could not have been less than 160,000 or more than 250,000. And even if the Japanese had murdered every single member of the Nanking Defense Corps and every single civilian, they could not have killed more than 160,000-250,000 Chinese. To massacre 300,000 persons, they would have had to kill many of them twice.
Mr. Brooks calls my attention to the fact that in another portion of the affidavit is contained the statement that 300,000 were killed in Nanking, and as I understand it the total population of Nanking in only 200,000.
Flustered, William Webb, the presiding justice, replied, "Well, you may have evidence of that, but you cannot get it in at this stage", thus suppressing any further discussion of the matter.18
Therefore, the question of the actual population of Nanking was never addressed at the IMTFE, and a most bizarre judgements was handed down, in which the (unsubstantiated) number of massacre victims was stated variously as 100,000, 200,000, 127,000, etc. Since then, proponents of the massacre have avoided the population issue, resorted to guesswork (Hora), or invented their own statistics, as Iris Chang did.
Please visit those sites and confirm "The Fake of Nanking"
http://www.jiyuu-shikan.org/e/index.html
http://www2.asia-u.ac.jp/~jh2cqxyz/
http://www.ne.jp/asahi/unko/tamezou/nankin/index-e.html
http://www.interq.or.jp/sheep/clarex/index-e.html
http://www.history.gr.jp/~nanking/index2.html
http://tamagawaboat.wordpress.com/
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Notice the "stream of happy" people are mostly Chinese women being herded by Japanese?
Yes, I am sure they are very happy! Their homes have been destroyed, family have been killed. The city is occupied by the feared Japanese army.
Notice the Chinese men in Western suits climbing telephone poles, and doing heavy labor while surrounded by Japanese? Yes, they are soooo happy!!!!
Oh sure, they are extremely happy. Who wouldn't be under these circumstances?
NaughtyNadine44 4 years ago
Huh? When did Japanese Imperial Army herded Chinese Women in Nanking ?
Friday, November 19: Fifteen Westerners living in Nanking formed an international committee with John H.D. Rabe as its chairman to organize a safety zone.
Nanking citizens was protected in safty zone. and Japanese Army didn't attack there.
You should visit this site.
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karakarakaka 4 years ago 57