Nanjing Massacre Documentation Series.5--Burial of the victims' corpses

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 8 volumes 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, memories, and testimonies of Japanese officers and soldiers who invaded China, written historical materials about the Nanjing Massacre by Westerners, testimonies of Nanjing Massacre survivors, historical materials from the International Military Tribunal for the Far East and the Military Court of the Chinese National Government for the Prosecution of War Criminals, as well as a large number of post-war statistical materials by the National Government related to the Nanjing Massacre, and so on. It covers all aspects of the history of the massacre, presenting irrefutable facts to the world and revealing the historical truth of that time. The content of the materials recorded in this volume is related to 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."