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Nanjing Massacre (1937)

On the WW2 map as “Nanjing”

Dec 1937 — Japan captures Nanjing, the Chinese capital. Its troops massacre large numbers of civilians and prisoners in one of the war’s major atrocities.

When
Type
Site of memory
Chapter
Japanese expansion and Pearl Harbor (chapter 7 of WW2)
Atlas
The War Room — WW2, 1936–1945
Also in
Road to WW2 · Chinese Revolution
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Map showing Nanjing Massacre (1937), site of memory in The War Room — WW2, 1936–1945
SITE OF MEMORY · THE WAR ROOM — WW2, 1936–1945

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