Today is "Yesterday"

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December 12, 1937

The Zhonghua Gate defense line was breached.

December 13, 1937.

The Japanese army held a ceremony to enter the city and slaughtered the city in a bloody manner.

Sun Yat-sen Mausoleum in Nanjing.

December 13, 1937

24 officers and soldiers of the guards of the Sun Yat-sen Mausoleum died heroically.

School of Music, Nanjing Normal University.

The girls were lined up and waited for the atrocities of the Japanese army.

December 15 (the third day of the Japanese occupation): More than 3,000 Chinese military and police personnel who had laid down their arms were collectively sent to Hanzhong Gate and fired intensively with machine guns, and many were killed on the spot. The wounded but not the dead were also incinerated in the same way as the bodies of the deceased. During the night, more than 9,000 Chinese civilians and disarmed Chinese soldiers who had been sent to the torpedo camp were massacred by the Japanese army. More than 30,000 people were slaughtered in the area of the pagoda bridge. 200 people were shot near the air raid trench on Zhongshan North Road.

December 16 (the fourth day of the Japanese occupation): More than 5,000 Chinese male and female refugees who had taken refuge in the overseas Chinese guest house in the Nanjing Security Zone were escorted by the Japanese army to Zhongshan Wharf, with their hands tied behind their backs, lined up. After being shot by the Japanese army with a machine gun, the body was abandoned in the Yangtze River to destroy the body. Among the more than 5,000 people, only Bai Zengrong and Liang Tingfang were shot and wounded and swam to the other side and were spared death. The Japanese army massacred more than 400 people in Sitiao Lane and more than 100 people in the Yin Yang Camp.

December 17 (the fifth day of the Japanese occupation): More than 3,000 Chinese civilians were taken by the Japanese army to the riverside downstream of the coal port and shot en masse. More than 400 Chinese refugees who had taken refuge in the Fangsheng Monastery and the Salesian Institute were shot en masse.

The night of December 18 (the 6th day of the Japanese occupation).

Shimonoseki Straw Shoe Gorge. The Japanese army tied up 57,418 Chinese refugees, men, women, and children who had escaped from Nanjing and were imprisoned in the Shogunate Mountain, all of whom had been starved to death or beaten to death, and drove them to the Xiaguan Straw Shoes Gorge, where they were fired intensively with machine guns, and slashed with knives at those who were still moaning and struggling in pools of blood. Afterwards, all the corpses were doused with kerosene and incinerated to destroy the corpses. The massacre was only

Wu Changde was burned but did not die, and was able to escape. The Japanese army shot and killed more than 4,000 people in the Dafang Lane refugee area.

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rape

During the Japanese occupation of Nanjing, thousands of women were raped, and they performed it day and night in front of the families of the victims, and some women were raped by the Japanese soldiers several times, and often women could not stand the torture of the Japanese soldiers and died. In addition to this, the Japanese army also forced ** behavior. It is estimated that there may have been more than 20,000 cases at that time.

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Cultural plunder

While the Chinese nation experienced this catastrophe of blood and tears, Chinese cultural treasures were also plundered. According to investigations, after the Japanese invaders occupied Nanjing, they dispatched 330 special agents, 367 soldiers, and 830 laborers to spend a month moving more than a dozen truckloads of books and literature every day, and looting a total of 880,000 books and documents, exceeding the 850,000 volumes of the Ueno Imperial Library, the largest library in Japan at that time.

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We can't do anything, but don't forget the national shame, this is the soul of our nation.

Remembering the compatriots who sacrificed their lives in the people's liberation struggle. (To be continued.) )