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movie here: Nanking (Chinese: 南京) is a 2007 documentary film about the
1937 Nanking Massacre committed by the Japanese army in the former capital city Nanjing, China. The film draws on letters and diaries from the era as well as archive footage and interviews with surviving victims and perpetrators of the massacre. Contemporary actors play the roles of the Western missionaries, professors, and businessmen who formed the Nanking Safety Zone to protect the city's civilians from Japanese forces. Particular attention is paid to John Rabe, a German businessman who organized the Nanking Safety Zone, Robert O. Wilson, a surgeon who remained in Nanking to care for legions of victims, and Minnie Vautrin, a missionary educator who rendered aid to thousands of Nanking's women.
You can probably find the full movie in embeddable form somewhere - but if you're in the US you can watch it on AOL's site (their vice chairman financed the documentary).
Find it here The film itself isn't controversial if you accept the facts - but the controversy comes from Japanese nationalists who continue to deny the massacre happened. This is much like how stupid people deny the Holocaust in Europe.
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NuminarExcept those nationalists get voted in a lot in Japan. Or maybe they never really got purged at all. I think the Mayor of Tokyo bagged this movie and then made/is making a more JN friendly version. Sick. Their rallies are hilarious as well, the looks you get as a foreigner checking out their antics are priceless.
All hail the Emperor!
jerrykuA fascinating thing I learned recently is that the Japanese military refused to exterminate the Jews living in China during all this, protecting them from Nazi demands. Meanwhile, some Nazi officials in China protected Chinese people from Japanese atrocities.
So the Japanese (but not Nazis) hated Chinese.
The Nazis (but not Japanese) hated the Jews.
War makes strange bedfellows I suppose.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Jews_in_China
MrConradsFor those interested, read the book "The Rape of Nanking" by Iris Chang. It's a very good book on the issue.
csnel3says...The world has known about the the shit the Japanese are capable of for more than 70 years.
It's this kind of thing that made it "OK' to drop the big bombs on them.
Now they just do whacky shit on TV so that everyone will forget their true nature....mindless, souless, murdering little people who like to degrade other humans, including themselves.
Krupo>> ^MrConrads:
For those interested, read the book "The Rape of Nanking" by Iris Chang. It's a very good book on the issue.
That book was in fact the source for the whole movie.
legacy0100Correct answer! 50 Points for Jerry.
In reply to this comment by jerryku:
A fascinating thing I learned recently is that the Japanese military refused to exterminate the Jews living in China during all this, protecting them from Nazi demands. Meanwhile, some Nazi officials in China protected Chinese people from Japanese atrocities.
So the Japanese (but not Nazis) hated Chinese.
The Nazis (but not Japanese) hated the Jews.
War makes strange bedfellows I suppose.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Jews_in_China
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