Editing Nanjing Massacre (section)

=== Nanking Safety Zone and the role of foreigners ===
The Japanese troops did respect the Zone to an extent; until the Japanese occupation, no shells entered that part of the city except a few stray shots. During the chaos following the attack of the city, some were killed in the Safety Zone, but the crimes that occurred in the rest of the city were far greater by all accounts.{{sfn|Chang|1997|pp=105–139}}

Rabe wrote that, from time to time, the Japanese would enter the Safety Zone at will, carry off a few hundred men and women, and either summarily execute them or rape and then kill them.<ref>{{cite book |first=John E. |last=Woods |title=The Good Man of Nanking, the Diaries of John Rabe |year=1998 |page=274}}</ref>

By February 5, 1938, the [[International Committee for the Nanking Safety Zone]] had forwarded to the Japanese embassy a total of 450 cases of murder, rape, torture and general disorder by Japanese soldiers that had been reported after the American, British and German diplomats had returned to their embassies:<ref name=Woods275-278>{{cite book |first=John E. |last=Woods |title=The Good Man of Nanking, the Diaries of John Rabe |year=1998 |pages=275–278}}<!-- ISSN/ISBN needed --></ref>
* "Case 5&nbsp;– On the night of December 14th, there were many cases of Japanese soldiers entering houses and raping women or taking them away. This created panic in the area and hundreds of women moved into the Ginling College campus yesterday."
* "Case 10&nbsp;– On the night of December 15th, a number of Japanese soldiers entered the University of Nanjing buildings at Tao Yuen and raped 30 women on the spot, some by six men."
* "Case 13&nbsp;– December 18, 4 p.m., at No. 18 I Ho Lu, Japanese soldiers wanted a man's cigarette case and when he hesitated, one of the soldier crashed in the side of his head with a bayonet. The man is now at the University Hospital and is not expected to live."
* "Case 14&nbsp;– On December 16, seven girls (ages ranged from 16 to 21) were taken away from the Military College. Five returned. Each girl was raped six or seven times daily – reported December 18th."
* "Case 15&nbsp;– There are about 540 refugees crowded in No. 83 and 85 on Canton Road... More than 30 women and girls have been raped. The women and children are crying all nights. Conditions inside the compound are worse than we can describe. Please give us help."
* "Case 16&nbsp;– A Chinese girl named Loh, who, with her mother and brother, was living in one of the Refugee Centers in the Refugee Zone, was shot through the head and killed by a Japanese soldier. The girl was 14 years old. The incident occurred near the Kuling Ssu, a noted temple on the border of the Refugee zone&nbsp;..."<ref name="Woods275-278" />
* "Case 19&nbsp;– January 30th, about 5 p.m. [[Hubert Lafayette Sone|Mr. Sone]] (of the [[Nanjing Theological Seminary]]) was greeted by several hundred women pleading with him that they would not have to go home on February 4th. They said it was no use going home they might just as well be killed for staying at the camp as to be raped, robbed or killed at home... One old woman 62 years old went home near Hansimen and Japanese soldiers came at night and wanted to rape her. She said she was too old. So the soldiers rammed a stick up her. But she survived to come back."

It is said that Rabe rescued between 200,000 and 250,000 Chinese people.<ref>[http://www.moreorless.au.com/heroes/rabe.html John Rabe] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130722090333/http://www.moreorless.au.com/heroes/rabe.html |date=July 22, 2013 }}, moreorless</ref><ref>[http://www.jiyuu-shikan.org/nanjing/tpopu.html "John Rabe's letter to Hitler, from Rabe's diary"] Population of Nanking, Jiyuu-shikan.org {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101229013854/http://www.jiyuu-shikan.org/nanjing/tpopu.html |date=December 29, 2010 }}</ref>

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File:Photo 02 in Nanjing Massacre (Itou Kaneo's Album).jpg|Photo in the album taken in Nanjing by Itou Kaneo of the [[Kisarazu Air Group|Kisarazu Air Unit]] of the Imperial Japanese Navy
File:Child killed in Nanking massacre.jpg|A picture of a dead child. Probably taken by [[Bernhard Arp Sindberg|Bernhard Sindberg]]
File:Chinese civilians to be buried alive.jpg|Prisoners being buried alive<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.history.ucsb.edu/faculty/marcuse/classes/133p/133p04papers/JChapelNanjing046.htm |first=Joseph |last=Chapel |title=Denial of the Holocaust and the Rape of Nanking |year=2004 |access-date=26 May 2006 |archive-date=3 March 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303175232/http://www.history.ucsb.edu/faculty/marcuse/classes/133p/133p04papers/JChapelNanjing046.htm |url-status=live}}</ref>
File:Victims in Nanjing massacre.jpg|[[Skeleton]]s of the massacre's victims
File:A waterpond filled with the bodies of executed Chinese soldiers who got safety promise by Japanese (b), Nanjing Massacre.jpg|A pond filled with dead victims
File:Photo 03 in Nanjing Massacre (Itou Kaneo's Album).png|Another photo from Itou Kaneo's album, displaying Chinese corpses
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