Episode 207 - Nanking Part 3
Lions Led By Donkeys Podcast
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The Nanking Genocide
The rape of Nanking was not limited to the city of Nanking, but the entire surrounding area was victimized as well. Japanese soldiers descended upon villages like swarms of locusts and stole anything that they wanted. By January of 1938, not a single shop in the entire town was open. The harbor was empty. There was no food. No drinkable water. People were reduced to looting the houses, not already picked clean by the Japanese in order to survive. This loot-based black market, both building material and food was the first spark of a local economy after the blood bath was over.
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