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Three times of plundering usually befell cities considered by storm, a destiny usually avoided by those surrendering prior to the first attacking soldier penetrated beyond the outer walls. In Europe and areas influenced by Enlightenment thinkers, this practice faded rapidly following the Napoleonic Wars. In 1937, however, as the Imperial Army of Japan invaded China, this custom came back in a horrifying new form - the Rape of Nanking or the Nanking Massacre, a bloodbath sustained more than six weeks and perhaps claiming more than a quarter of the million lives. Even the Japanese participating in the Nanking Massacre provided no rationale because of their activities. They made no effort to explain it as a strategy to terrorize other Chinese language metropolitan areas into surrender, or even to extract the positioning of hidden valuables. Instead, the rape appears ever sold as a psychopathic orgy of sadism for sadism's sake. Insatiably powered by hatred and, obviously, an unabashed relish for cruelty, the Japanese soldiery forgotten any semblance of restraint. Even Third Reich personnel in the town interceded in a sometimes futile effort to rescue victims of their tormentors. By the end of the city's long harrowing, the earth knew evidently, if it didn't before, that the Japanese of Tojo and Hirohito demonstrated an extremely different heart than the exquisitely genteel and chivalric men of the Russo-Japanese Warfare of 1905. The fight Imperial Japan represented not merely an effort to don't be conquered, but also for survival itself.

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