Which Event Did We Cover Last Class DDay

Which Event Did We Cover Last Class? • D-Day. • Which Theater was it in? • European. • Now looking at something going on in the Pacific Theater.

Genocide? • What is it? • Examples? – Holocaust – Rwanda – Armenian Genocide – Cambodia

Vocabulary • Atrocity: something extremely wicked, brutal, or cruel. • Genocide: deliberate and systematic extermination of a national, racial, political, or cultural group.

Warning • Today’s lesson is going to include graphic images and sensitive content. • If you are going to be immature about it you can read about this event in the library.

Rape of Nanking

Where are Nanking and Shanghai?

Battle at Shanghai • Summer of 1937. • When did WWII Start? • Chinese put up a good fight and the battle drug on which infuriated the Japanese.

Nanking • Dec. 13, 1937 50, 000 Japanese soldiers smashed into Nanking. • Six weeks • They murdered about 300, 000 out of 600, 000 civilians and soldiers in the city.

Soldiers • First eliminated the 90, 000 Chinese soldiers who surrendered. • Mowed down by machine guns, burned alive etc. • Why would this be the first action?

Women • Then attention turned to women. • More than 20, 000 females were gangraped and stabbed to death by bayonets or shot.

Video: • http: //www. alphacanada. org/education/asian-holocaust/therape-of-nanking/ron-overview

• “We were herded to the river. Those who tried to run were bayoneted to death. They pushed us into a bigger group of prisoners then they asked us how we would like to die: burning, bullets, bayonets, bomb or burying? They did not really wait for an answer. Rows of 10 were tied together and bayoneted then dumped into the river. I was lucky, as they bayoneted the man next to me he fell on me and hid me. Later as they pushed the bodies into the river I floated downstream as one of the dead. ”

Corpses in the Street

Killing Contests • Japanese soldiers had competitions of who could kill the most Chinese.

International Safety Zone • Group of Americans and Europeans created a safe zone. • Risked their lives. • John Rabe, a German businessman who led to local Nazi party, was involved. • Some 250, 000 civilians found shelter.

Reaction in the USA • Reports published in the New York Times etc. • Met with skepticism, seen as too fantastic to believe.

Survivor’s Testimony • http: //www. alphacanada. org/education/asian-holocaust/therape-of-nanking/ron-overview

True or False 1) The Battle of Shanghai took place after the Rape of Nanking. 2) Genocide is the deliberate and systematic extermination of another group. 3) John Rabe was a Nazi who risked his life to help those in Nanking. 4) The Rape of Nanking took place in 1939. 5) The United States did not know what was going on in Nanking.

Closure • Why is it important that we learn about this event in schools today?

Holocaust Reading • Pg. 781 -782 • Start at Occupied Lands and stop at Co. Prosperity Sphere. • Answer these questions 1) Who did Hitler view as racially inferior? 2) What was the final solution? 3) Who was Sugihara Chiune?