Persuasive Essay On The Naking Massacre

When one thinks about the Holocaust, the Germans and the Jews are most likely what comes to mind. The bombing of Pearl Harbor or Hiroshima and Nagasaki are pertinent when Japan is brought up. The Nanking Massacre is known as the forgotten holocaust and it truly has been forgotten. This terrible cataclysm caused three hundred thousand brutal murders and thousands of raped, assaulted and violated women during the years of 1937 and 1938. Both the Japanese and Nanking denied the tragedies that occured during those six weeks of torture and the Japanese still try to deny the fact that it ever happened. The violent murder, heartless raping, and denial of the Japanese government makes the repugnant Nanking massacre significant to the world’s antiquity.

The Japanese soldiers were extremely brutal and insensitive. They raped the women in their homes, but they would also take the women out in the streets to be raped, killing them afterwards in appalling ways. They would rape pregnant women and cut open their bellies. They made fathers rape their daughters and sons rape their mothers. If they objected, they were killed. Women of all ages were violated. They raped seventy year-old women, nine year-old girls, nuns, and high class wives. Many of the young and pretty girls were taken from their families and homes for days and used as sex slaves for the Japanese soldiers. They would charge into the safety zones and take women by the hundreds. They would gang rape women and when they returned, if they returned, they would often fall into a state of depression or they would commit suicide from the shame of the

The Japanese stole the lives of many. The horrible memory of the Nanking Massacre still lives with many of those who survived through it and with their relatives. With all that happened in such a short amount of time, it is tragic that the Nanking Massacre is labeled the “Forgotten Holocaust. Not only forgotten, but denied by the Japanese executioners. The people of Nanking and the rest of China deserves to tell their story. These atrocities are worthy of recognition by the world and are important to its history. Even though the Japanese deny that this ever happened, the world needs to know that the Holocaust was not the only genocide that history has ever