In the months that followed the Marco Polo Bridge incident, the Japanese Army marched south, taking Shanghai and the capital city of Nanking. The Japanese were notorious for their brutality during the war. German businessman and good samaritan John Rabe, wrote in his diary after witnessing the Nanking Massacre,
I have had to look at so many corpses over the last few weeks that I can keep my nerves in check even when viewing these horrible cases. It really doesn’t leave you in the ‘Christmas’ mood; but I wanted to see these atrocities with my own eyes, so that I can speak as an eyewitness later. A man cannot be silent about this kind of cruelty (Rabe 92).
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