WARNING NOT A FUN READ...
There were 199,000 total casualties as a result of
the atomic bombs used to end WWII.
I have heard people say President Truman was a
cruel man to authorize the dropping of two Atomic Bombs on Japan. The president knew some of the following facts
when he made the decision:
1. His knowledge that a Japanese soldier was
ordered to die rather than surrender.
2. He also knew of the torture of his own soldiers at the hands of the Japanese.
3.
The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust
of World War II is a best selling 1997 non-fiction book written by Iris
Chang
Atrocities
The book depicted in detail the killing, torture, and rape that
occurred during the Nanking Massacre. Chang listed and described the kinds of
torture that were visited upon the residents, including live burials, mutilation,
"death by fire", "death by ice", and "death by
dogs". Based on the testimony of a survivor of the massacre, Chang also
described a killing contest amongst a group of Japanese soldiers to determine
who could kill the fastest. On the rape that occurred during the massacre,
Chang wrote that "certainly it was one of the greatest mass rapes in world
history." She estimated that the number of women raped ranged from 20,000
to as many as 80,000, and stated that women from all classes were raped,
including Buddhist nuns. Furthermore, rape occurred
in all locations and at all hours,] and both very young and very old women were raped. Not
even pregnant women were spared, Chang wrote, and that after gang rape,
Japanese soldiers "sometimes slashed open the bellies of pregnant women
and ripped out the fetuses for amusement". Not all rape victims
were women, according to the book, Chinese men were sodomized and forced to
perform repulsive sexual acts. Some were forced to commit incest—fathers
to rape their own daughters, brothers their sisters, sons their mothers.
Death toll
Chang wrote of the death toll estimates given by different
sources; Chinese military specialist Liu Fang-chu proposed a figure of 430,000;
officials at the Nanjing Massacre Memorial Hall and the procurator of the District
Court of Nanjing in 1946 stated at least 300,000 were killed; the International
Military Tribunal for the Far East (IMTFE) judges concluded
that more than 260,000 people were killed; Japanese historian Fujiwara Akira
approximated 200,000; John Rabe, who "never conducted a systematic count
and left Nanking in February", estimated only 50,000 to 60,000; and
Japanese author Ikuhiko Hata argued
the number killed was between 38,000 and 42,000.
The book discussed the research of historian Sun Zhaiwei. In his
1990 paper,The Nanking Massacre and the Nanking Population, Sun
estimated the total number of people killed at 377,400. Using Chinese burial
records, he calculated that the number of dead exceeded the figure of 227,400.
He then added estimates totaling 150,000 given by Japanese Imperial Army Major
Ohta Hisao in a confessional report about the Japanese army's disposal efforts
of dead bodies, arriving at the sum of 377,400
dead Chang wrote that there is "compelling evidence" that the
Japanese themselves, at the time, believed that the death toll may have been as
high as 300,000. She cited a message that Japan's foreign minister Kōki Hirota relayed to his contacts in Washington, DC in
the first month of the massacre on January 17, 1938. The message acknowledged
that "not less than three hundred thousand Chinese civilians [were]
slaughtered, many cases in cold blood."
Foot note:
President Truman knew the Japanese had murdered
hundreds of thousands (civilians), but did not know it was into the Millions when he okayed the use of
the A-Bombs.
Two wrongs do not make a right. But my mama had two boys in that war. Along
with many family. We were all glad when
the war ended. I am sorry if it offends anyone, but in 1945-46 no one cared
how, we just wanted the war OVER.
From the research of R.J. Runnel.
From the invasion of China in 1937 to the end of World War II, the Japanese military regime murdered near 3,000,000 to over 10,000,000 people, most probably almost 6,000,000 Chinese, Indonesians, Koreans, Filipinos, and Indochinese, among others, including Western prisoners of war. This democide was due to a morally bankrupt political and military strategy, military expediency and custom, and national culture (such as the view that those enemy soldiers who surrender while still able to resist were criminals).
Nite Shipslog.
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