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Brace yourselves, Shmoopers...this video about the Rape of Nanjing isn't going to be an easy one.
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- 00:02
China at the beginning of the 20th century was a happenin place [Chinese people celebrating]
- 00:06
the Ching dynasty was overthrown in 1911 and replaced by the Republic of China in
- 00:11
1912 well unfortunately the ROC couldn't keep it together and warlords throughout
- 00:17
the country took big bites out of the ROCs Authority and don't forget the
- 00:21
Japanese were there too you know stirring the pot by the 1930s the Kuomingtang
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- 00:26
or the party in charge of the ROC was fighting both the Warlord's and
- 00:32
the Chinese Communist Party and the KMT also got to look forward to a fight with [Men fighting]
- 00:36
the Japanese who had invaded Manchuria in 1931
- 00:40
well that fight began in the summer 1937 when the Japanese invaded China proper
- 00:45
and started the second sino-japanese war the Japanese began at Shanghai and had a
- 00:51
surprisingly tough go of it for several weeks before they were able to move on [Japanese soldiers appear running]
- 00:55
to the city of Nanjing which had been the capital of the ROC for about a
- 00:59
decade and that was when things took a pretty horrifying turn from December
- 01:05
1937 through January 1938 the Japanese army committed mass atrocities against
- 01:11
the population of the city they raped, they murdered, they looted Nanjing and
- 01:16
committed arson honestly we don't want to get into what happened too much [Japanese soldiers in a boat on the river]
- 01:20
because well what the Japanese did will make you doubt your faith in humanity
- 01:24
and if you do decide to delve deeper than what we just said well make sure
- 01:27
you have a puppy to a hug nearby you'll need it and who the heck knows how many
- 01:32
people died at Nanjing the estimates range from the tens of thousands to the [Death toll rises]
- 01:36
hundreds of thousands well the rape of Nanjing was just the
- 01:39
beginning of a nearly decade-long war that decimated the Chinese population
- 01:43
and pretty much ruined the country for a long time the Japanese weren't the only
- 01:48
ones doing the killing either Chiang kai-shek the fascism loving leader of
- 01:52
the ROC was not above advocating policies that directly resulted in the [Chiang holding the edict of disagreement]
- 01:57
deaths of his own people that's one of the reason his butt had to book it for
- 02:01
Taiwan in 1949 like the Holocaust there are those who like to pretend that the
- 02:07
rape of Nanjing didn't happen or that it was a military maneuver instead of a
- 02:11
massacre as recently as 2004 Japanese officials have said that the
- 02:16
atrocities committed in Nanjing never happened or didn't happen the way
- 02:20
witnesses said they did but like the Holocaust the war crimes committed in
- 02:24
Nanjing were a real thing photos don't lie and now if you'll excuse us we're
- 02:29
gonna go a binge on chocolate watch the fluffiest romantic comedy we can find [People with chocolates and puppies]
- 02:33
and detox from that whole lesson
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