The bodies of the victims were buried.

Author: Sun Zhaiwei (Editor)
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Publish Date: 2005-07-01
Features: The complete set of "The Nanjing Massacre Documentation Project" consists of 25 volumes, approximately 12 million words. The first eight volumes comprehensively and systematically introduce important historical materials related to the Nanjing Massacre. The content includes historical archives of the Chinese army's fierce battles to defend the capital Nanjing against invading Japanese forces, a large amount of data on the burial of the bodies of victims of the Nanjing Massacre by Japanese troops, diaries, letters, recollections, and testimonies of Japanese soldiers and officers who invaded China, written historical materials about the Nanjing Massacre by Westerners, testimonies of survivors of the Nanjing Massacre, historical materials from the International Military Tribunal for the Far East and the Military Court of the National Defense of the Republic of China for the Prosecution of War Criminals, as well as a large number of post-war investigation and statistical materials by the Nationalist government regarding the Nanjing Massacre, covering all aspects of the massacre history. With irrefutable facts, it presents the historical truth of the time to the world. The content of the materials recorded in this volume concerns the burial of the bodies of victims of the Nanjing Massacre by the Japanese forces who invaded China (including methods such as discarding bodies into the river, etc.). This content is of great significance to the study of the Nanjing Massacre. This is because one of the focal points of domestic and international attention on the Nanjing Massacre in recent years has been the issue of the deceased. The sources of the document materials collected in this volume are noted in the lower right corner of each document. Since some materials have multiple compilers and publishers, to save space, only the first compiler and publisher are noted, and the rest are indicated with the word "et al."