| Fact.1 No Westerners saw Japanese killing civilians. |
Nanking massacre is allegedly a large scale of killing civilians and there are many Westerners in Nanking at the time of battle as shown below, yet surprisingly, none of so called “eyewitnesses” of massacre saw Japanese killing civilians in person.
They only saw bodies whom they thought Japanese did or Japanese soldiers killing Chinese soldiers while Chinese soldiers killed many Chinese civilians even several months before the battle (executing 2000 of them as spies), right before the battle (12th a panic at North gate and river), and after the battle (trying to ) all along.
Westerners in Nanking at the time of battle
| Photo | Name | The period of time in Nanking | Nationality | Occupation | |
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John Rabe | German | Business man | He wrote a diary. A chief of Safety Zone committee. | |
| Steel | American | Journalist | Author of 1st report of Nanking massacre | ||
| Tilman Durdin | American | Journalist | |||
| McDaniel | American | Journalist | |||
| John Magee | American | Pastor | He confessed he only saw a single case of Japanese shooting Chinese running away at interrogation. | ||
| Mills | American | Pastor | A sub chief of Safety Zone committee. He wrote about Kuomintang and praised Chiang kai-shek for protecting Christianity. | ||
| Bates | American | Pastor | The advisor of Kuomintang. He possibly wrote Nanking massacre article anonymously. | ||
| Smithe | American | Pastor | He wrote Smithe report with Bates's supervision accusing Japanese soldiers, which later was submitted at Tokyo Trial after WW2. | ||
| Vautrin | American | Teacher | |||
| Fitch | American | Pastor | China born American pastor. A close friend of | ||
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Westerners NOT in Nanking at the time of battle
| Photo | Name | The period of time in Nanking | Nationality | Occupation | |
| Herald Timperley | Australian | Business man | author of the book “War What means” about Nanking Massacre. | ||
¶ John Rabe
Good Nazi? If you read his book,
1) He didn't see even a single case of Japanese killing civilians. He only saw dead bodies.
Oddly "bodies with vaginas thrusted" he saw are resemble to how Chinese soldiers killed Japanese at Tongzhou Massacre ( 200 Japanese/Korean civilians living in China under agreement were brutally massacred in Tongzhou 4 month before Nankin battle).
2) John Rabe sent a letter to Japanese embassy to show appreciation after Nanking fall on 13th Dec 1937.
3) John Rabe and Bates had the interviews by Japanese newspaper Asahi 5th Jan 1938 after Nanking fall.
John Rabe said, "Japanese attack was GREAT." They were double-tongued . ラーベは日本の新聞で「日本の攻撃は素晴らしかった」と言った
English translation above.
4) John Rabe, the leader of the safety committee, harbored two Chinese KMT
Colonels in his house, the violation of the agreement with Japan. He was donated by Chiang Kai-shek. He was not neutral.
5) Nazi was a major supporter of Chiang kai-shek, the leader of Japanese opponent in Nanking at 2nd Sino-Japanese war, until Nanking defeat. Chiang Kai-shek's wife's sister was Nazi honorary member. The son of Chiang with Nazi uniform was in Germany.
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¶ Steel
American journalist who wrote the first Nanking Massacre article. It was anti-Japanese propaganda, with the title ”Japanese atrocity ”, yet writing about the 5 feet height pile of bodies , which was made BEFORE Japanese entry of Nanking. It also says “civilians were killed” while he himself only saw Japanese soldiers jabbing possibly civilian who might be one of those Chinese soldiers taking off uniforms escaping.
In fact, he has been fooling around China several years before Nanking battle, and US government requested Japanese to find him when he became missing. Japanese found him and protected him, but Japanese military saw him as a person of note.
After WW2, he was interviewed with Tokuji Kasahara, and he never said he saw Japanese killing civilians in person.