Forgotten tragedy.
To his list of evil events--"the Holocaust Holocaust (hŏl`əkôst', hō`lə–), name given to the period of persecution and extermination of European Jews by Nazi Germany. , Hiroshima, the killing fields of Cambodia ..."--John Garvey should add the rape of Nanking in December 1937. After defeating the Chinese in Shanghai, the Japanese army Japanese Army can refer to: - the Imperial Japanese Army, 1869-1947
- the Japan Ground Self-Defense Force, 1947-present
marched into Nanking, where it killed 300,000 of the 600,000 people living in the city--soldiers and civilians alike. This atrocity has been described as "the forgotten holocaust The phrase "forgotten holocaust" has been used to refer to several different historical events, including: - Armenian holocaust
- The Rape of Nanking
- Nazi crimes against ethnic Poles
- Holodomor (Ukrainian famine under Stalin)
of World War II."
PAULA J. HO
Toronto, Ontario
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