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Nanking Massacre (dec 1, 1937 – jan 1, 1938)

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To some this signifies one of the beginning points of world war two. It was when Japan, after fighting to take over Shanghai, brutally killed and tortured hundreds of thousands of people in what is now Nanjing. Women and girls being taken as "comfort woman" was also a common scenario.

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Date:

dec 1, 1937
jan 1, 1938
~ 1 months