Xianwen Zhang

Die Kriegsverbrechen der japanischen Besatzer in der chinesischen Hauptstadt Nanjing während des Zweiten Japanisch-Chinesischen Krieges in den 1930er Jahren sind nach wie vor global umstritten und Opferzahlen nicht belegt. 30 Jahre Archivrecherche und über 200 Bilder versuchen nun, die Ungewissheiten zu beseitigen.

Augenzeugenberichte und weitere Belege für das Massaker von Nanjing

Menschliche Erinnerungen

Jianjun Zhang

On December 13, 1937, the Japanese army captured Nanjing and we nt on to wantonlymassacre disarmed Chinese soldiers and defenseless civilians in flagrant violation ofinternational conventions. The Nanjing Massacre forms one of the darkest chapters in20th-century world history.Researching this major historical event requires scholars worldwide to collect a variety ofprimary source material in different languages. Compiled by a group of historians fromabout ten universities and research institutions based in China and abroad, Human Memory:Solid Evidence of the Nanjing Massacre represents a major effort in this regard. Consistingof textual and pictorial evidence reproduced from major archives and libraries aroundthe world, the book falls into four parts—Chinese, Japanese, English, and other Westernlanguages. The book covers material created by victims, perpetrators, and important thirdparties in a diversity of formats: diaries, petitions, investig ation reports, news articles,tribunal documents, and photographs. To help readers to better understand the widerange of evidence, the editors have provided very useful annotations for each document orphotograph. Without a doubt, this publication holds some of the most vivid and soberingscenes in humanity’s collective memory.

Solid Evidence of the Nanjing Massacre

Human Memory

Weixing Wang

Lianhong Zhang

The Nanjing Massacre is known as one of the darkest pages in 20th-century world history. For various reasons, however, this historical tragedy remained relatively unknown to the general public in the West until the 1997 publication of Iris Chang's popular book, The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II. Since then, the topic has drawn more attention. A History of the Nanjing Massacre is the first comprehensive narrative of the massacre written by a group of Chinese scholars from Nanjing. From the fall of the city, to the atrocities themselves, to the international community's efforts to save refugees, and finally to the trials of the war criminals, the book offers a complete story of the massacre from the Chinese, Japanese, and Western perspectives. The book is based on a substantial amount of primary source materials collected by a group of Chinese and foreign scholars led by Professor Zhang Xianwen of Nanjing University from major archives and libraries around the world. This massive effort resulted in the publication of 72 volumes of historical data, the most comprehensive collection on the topic.

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