Tommy Tainant
Diamond Member
You would need to provide actual examples.Okay. Agreed. It was a war crime.Im quoting the publishers promo note. I dont think Rabe makes a claim about numbers in his book. However he does give a first hand account of what happened. To me that clearly shows a war crime was taking place.https://www.amazon.co.uk/Good-German-Nanking-Diaries-John/dp/0349111413&tag=
In 1937, as the invading Japanese Army closed on Nanking, then the capital of China, all foreigners were ordered to evacuate. One man, a mild 55-year-old German named John Rabe who ran the local Siemens factory, refused on the grounds that it would show a bad example to his Chinese workers. Sending his wife and family to safety, he watched in horror as the Japanese began to wipe out the population. Hastily contacting the tiny remaining community of foreigners, and using the flimsy authority of a pact Hitler had made with the Japanese, Rabe spent months safeguarding and providing refuge for thousands of Chinese, often interposing himself physically between the executioners and their victims. It is estimated that he saved between 250,000 and 300,000 lives by his efforts. And every night, he would write up his diary of these extraordinary events.
This is an excellent eye witness account of the events told from the perspective of a Japanese ally. It shows the complete breakdown of order in Nanking and is quite horrific. It happened, just like the holocaust, and quibbling over the numbers seems to me to be a pointless exercise.
By the way Rabe was a nazi member.
I take it you didn't read the OP. There were only about 200,000 people in Nanking when the Japanese arrived, so they could not have killed 250,000 to 300,000. The burial records don't support anything even close to that number. Etc., etc., etc.
You're quoting from Rabe's later account. In his initial reports to his government, he put the figure at a much lower number.
Quibbling over the numbers seems to be a pointless exercise.At what point does it stop being an atrocity ?
Now simple question for all you statists. If what the Japanese did at Nanking was a war crime, how is it that the ruthless aerial bombardment of German and Japanese defenseless civilians NOT A WAR CRIME?
Please provide concise logical explanations.