These tragic photos and stories capture the horrors that occurred during World War II. Wickedness of the highest order
Many Westerners know full well about the horrors that have happened on their side of the world throughout history.
But, all too often, when an atrocity happens on the other side of the world, most people in the West don't hear much about it or think much of it.
Alongside all of the catastrophes that plagued Europe during World War II, the atrocities committed in Asia were every bit as disturbing — even if many people in the West hardly ever learn about them in school
Left: A Chinese woman is tied to a pole and forcibly kissed by a Japanese soldier. Right: Elsewhere, a man is left blindfolded and tied up.
A young Chinese civilian kneels down, his hands tied behind his back, as he awaits execution by beheading at the hands of a Japanese soldier.
A 16-year-old girl who had been gang-raped and infected with a venereal disease by Japanese soldiers during the Nanking Massacre.
Dead bodies lying next to the Qinhuai River.
Dead bodies litter the area as Japanese soldiers push a cart to carry their ill-gotten gains as they loot buildings.
A grinning Japanese soldier holds the severed head of a victim in his hand.
After being stripped and raped by one or more men," a reporter for LIFE magazine wrote, describing the carnage that had occurred just before this photograph was taken, "she was bayoneted in the chest, and then had a bottle thrust into her vagina." The victim's entire family — including her one-year-old baby — was massacred
One estimate claimed that about 300,000 people died. Then, when Japanese soldiers and officials were tried and executed for war crimes just after World War II, a court found that at least 200,000 had perished during the Nanking Massacre.
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