Editing Nanjing Massacre (section)

=== Evidence and testimony ===
[[File:Nanking telegram Harold John Timperley.gif|thumb|[[Harold John Timperley]]'s telegram of January 17, 1938, describing the atrocities]]

The prosecution began the Nanjing phase of its case in July 1946. Dr. [[Robert O. Wilson]], a surgeon and a member of the International Committee for the Nanking Safety Zone, testified.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://imtfe.law.virginia.edu/contributors/robert-o-wilson |title=Robert O. Wilson |access-date=March 6, 2024 |archive-date=February 27, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240227140608/http://imtfe.law.virginia.edu/contributors/robert-o-wilson |url-status=live}}</ref>
Other members of the International Committee for the Nanking Safety Zone who took the witness stand included [[Miner Searle Bates]]<ref>{{cite web |url=https://web.library.yale.edu/divinity/nanking/bates |title=Miner Searle Bates &#124; Yale University Library |access-date=March 6, 2024 |archive-date=May 25, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240525082128/https://web.library.yale.edu/divinity/nanking/bates |url-status=live}}</ref> and [[John Magee (missionary)|John Magee]].<ref>{{cite book |last=Zhang |first=Kaiyuan |title=Eyewitnesses to Massacre |year=2015 |publisher=Routledge |location=New York |isbn=978-0-7656-0685-3 |url=https://api.pageplace.de/preview/DT0400.9781317470724_A24854418/preview-9781317470724_A24854418.pdf |page=x |archive-date=April 16, 2024 |access-date=March 6, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240416192700/https://api.pageplace.de/preview/DT0400.9781317470724_A24854418/preview-9781317470724_A24854418.pdf |url-status=live}}</ref> [[George A. Fitch]],<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1979/01/23/archives/george-a-fitch-dies-worked-for-ymca-in-china-for-decades.html |title=George A. Witch Dies; Worked for Y.M.C.A. In China for Decades |work=The New York Times |date=January 23, 1979 |last1=Cook |first1=Joan |archive-date=September 12, 2024 |access-date=March 6, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240912151901/https://www.nytimes.com/1979/01/23/archives/george-a-fitch-dies-worked-for-ymca-in-china-for-decades.html |url-status=live}}</ref> [[Lewis S. C. Smythe]],<ref>{{cite web |url=https://imtfe.law.virginia.edu/subject-45?page=11 |title=Atrocities |access-date=March 6, 2024 |archive-date=July 23, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240723042303/https://imtfe.law.virginia.edu/subject-45?page=11 |url-status=live}}</ref> and James McCallum filed affidavits with their diaries and letters.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://web.library.yale.edu/divinity/nanking/mccallum |title=James Henry McCallum &#124; Yale University Library |access-date=March 6, 2024 |archive-date=November 14, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231114024835/https://web.library.yale.edu/divinity/nanking/mccallum |url-status=live}}</ref>

The entry for the same day in Matsui's diary read, "I could only feel sadness and responsibility today, which has been overwhelmingly piercing my heart. This is caused by the Army's misbehaviors after the fall of Nanjing and failure to proceed with the autonomous government and other political plans."<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Lu |first=Suping |date=2013 |title=The Nanjing Massacre: Primary Source Records and Secondary Interpretations—A Textual Critique of Bob Tadashi Wakabayashi's Review |journal=China Review International |volume=20 |issue=3/4 |pages=259–282 |jstor=43818315 |issn=1069-5834}}</ref>