77 years ago,China 1937

Peter H · Post by **Peter H** » 21 Feb 2007 08:44

Walls of Nanking

Peter H · Post by **Peter H** » 21 Feb 2007 08:48

Preparing scaling ladder

Peter H · Post by **Peter H** » 21 Feb 2007 08:54

Breaching the walls

Peter H · Post by **Peter H** » 21 Feb 2007 08:58

Casualty

Peter H · Post by **Peter H** » 21 Feb 2007 09:13

Street advance

Peter H · Post by **Peter H** » 21 Feb 2007 09:18

Rounded up young men

Peter H · Post by **Peter H** » 21 Feb 2007 09:29

Bix:

..Generals Matsui and Asaka insisted on staging a triumphal victory parade on horseback down the broad main thoroughfare of Nanking on December 17...at 2pm ..General Matsui,accompanied by Admiral Hasegawa,concluded the victory ceremony by bowing to the east and raising the Sun Flag from the front of the former Kuomintang Government office building."Banzai for His Majesty the Supreme Commander!" shouted Matsui three times.More than twenty thousand assembled combat troops--one third the total number occupying the city--echoed in unison.

Peter H · Post by **Peter H** » 21 Feb 2007 09:45

A Japanese propaganda newsreel of the parade in Nanking from Youtube.

We do not endorse denial of the Nanking Massacre here so its silly heading should be ignored.Its a pity such rare footage gets used for whatever political agenda.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0E25rGphkgc

The massacre that followed is discussed in our H&WC section here:

http://forum.axishistory.com/viewtopic.php?t=40634

kutuzov · Post by **kutuzov** » 21 Feb 2007 10:42

It comes to my city at last.Too sensitivie a thing to be stared at even on the screen.Good pics to record what was happening though.

Peter H · Post by **Peter H** » 21 Feb 2007 11:19

Yes, a sad period for Nanking and China.

A recent Japanese map of Nanking 1937.The Japanese divisions involved(the 16th,114th,6th,9th,13th) are indicated.

Peter H · Post by **Peter H** » 21 Feb 2007 12:57

Nanking's walls:

http://www.orientalarchitecture.com/nan ... sindex.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_Wall_of_Nanjing

michael mills · Post by **michael mills** » 23 Feb 2007 00:28

The massacre that followed is discussed in our H&WC section here:

http://forum.axishistory.com/viewtopic.php?t=40634

I commend to readers my own posts on the above thread, commencing on Page 5. They inject an element of balanced rationality into the debate, including a link to a very interesting paper by an Australian scholar.

Peter H · Post by **Peter H** » 31 Mar 2007 11:58

More Nanking photos

Peter H · Post by **Peter H** » 31 Mar 2007 12:00

Destroyed Wall

Franzl Rider · Post by **Franzl Rider** » 04 Aug 2007 17:43

I've just looked on the pictures in this thread. Very impressive. Some time ago I found some pictures of Japanese marines in Shanghai. On some pictures you can see Vickers-Crossley M25 armored cars.

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