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A mission under duress : the Nanjing Massacre and post-massacre social conditions documented by American diplomats

Suping Lu
Immediately after capturing the Chinese capital, Nanjing, on December 13, 1937, Japanese soldiers committed atrocities such as mass executions, rampant rapes, arson, and looting in and around the city. The carnage went on for weeks

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