A Massacre in the Making: Separating Truth from Fiction about Nanking
A Massacre in the Making: Separating Truth from Fiction about Nanking Think through the evidence for yourself Jason M. Morgan Jul 26, 2023 6 Japanese forces entered the city of Nanking in December of 1937. What happened next has long been, for many, an article of faith. Japanese soldiers, allege some contemporary historians , killed as many as two hundred thousand civilians in a frenzied rampage. The Chinese Communist Party agrees , upping the figure to three hundred thousand. We are also told of mass rapes by the Japanese. Anyone who questions any of this is accused of being a “ denialist .” For many who make such accusations , the Nanking Massacre, as the events of late 1937 are commonly called, is a given, moated with epithets and fenced around by a taboo. However, while history as fact does not change, history as inquiry never stops. Truth must be sifted from falsehood endlessly. Eyewitnesses must be cross-examined, sources must be probed, newly-unearth...
