I would like to offer to you the possibility that The Rape of Nanjing was entirely atrocity propaganda printed by newspapers, from whole cloth.
Ask yourself what is one of the ultimate taboos in japan?
Now ask yourself, what was the atrocity central to the rape of nanjing.
The answer is in the name.
Honestly this is the first time I've heard that this aspect of WW2 was potentially made up. Of course we all know about the magical super-efficient gas chambers and their wooden doors, but this one is new to me. I will have to do some research on that.
Honestly this is the first time I've heard that this aspect of WW2 was potentially made up.
I am happy to have expanded the possibilities under consideration.
I wish I remembered the sources and details that made me question it myself.
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