Approximately 20,000 cases of rape occurred within the city during the first month of the occupation. --- From Judgement of the International Military Tribunal

After being raped,this pregnant woman was cut open at the stomach,her bowels exposed.

A woman in Nanjing,after being gang-raped,was forced to undress herself to amuse the Japanese soldiers.  --- From A Faithful Record of Atrocity of Japanese Troops

Women,in extreme agony after being gang-raped. --- From A Faithful Record of Atrocity of Japanese Troops

Work report of Nanjing Red Cross Committee in June 1938 recorded that in the 6 months' period from December 1937 to May 1938,burial teams of the committee had buried 22,371 corpses in the districts of Xiaguan and Heping Gate.Above is a photograph of some team members after one day's work.

Statistics charts for No.1 and No.2 burial teams from January to May and from January to March 1938.(The authentic album is now kept in the Second Historical Archive Museum of China.)

Members of the World Red Swastika Society Nanjing Branch were carrying the dead bodies to be buried.

The vest worn by employees of Chong Shan Tang,a charity organization in China for burying the deceased without families.

Name list of burial team members of Chong Shan Tang.

Cui Jinggui,member of a burial team.

Burning the bodies of refugees after slaughter by the side of the Yangtze River. --- From [Japan] Moriyasa Murase

Corpses of the refugees being burnt with fuel wood and diesel oil. --- From [Japan] Moriyasa Murase

Japanese soldiers loading corpses of the refugees onto a boat thrown into the Yangtze River. --- From [Japan] Moriyasa Murase

Oil Painting <1937·Nanjing Massacre ·Slaughter ·Life·Buddhism>

A Nanjing citizen was blindfolded before excution by the Japanese soldiers.

    A Japanese soldier photographed on the spot and took the firm

A handwriting note by the Japanese Army indicating that they had  taken away 3 locomotives and 8 carriages when they occupied Nanjing train station before noon on December 13,1937.

A young Chinese citizen roped on a tree trunk before being bayoneted to death.

A seven-year-old child with seven stab wounds died in hospital. --- From A Faithful Record of Atrocity of Japanese Troops

A three-year-old child was cruelly killed by Japanese soldiers. --- From A Faithful Record of Atrocity of Japanese Troops

Thousands of children were killed during the Nanjing Massacre.These were among a few identified from photographs.The  oldest among them was barely three. --- From A Faithful Record of Atrocity of Japanese Troops

Japanese soldiers amusing themselves by killing innocent people. --- From A Faithful Record of Atrocity of Japanese Troops

A report carried by the Japanese newspaper Nichi Nichi Shimbun about the "Killing Contest" by two sergeants of the invading Japanese Army in China.

A woman who had been bayoneted by a Japanese soldier was under treatment in Gulou Hospital. --- Photographed by Rev.John Magee(U.S.)

The Japanese soldiers put wooden shackles on the neck of a citizen before murdering him. --- From the Second Historical Archive Museum of China.

A captured Nanjing youth tied to a post as a target for shoting and practice by Japanese soldiers. --- From the Second Historical Archive Museum of China