In December 1937， Nanjing fell to the Japanese Imperial A The Japanese army launched a massacre for six According to the records of several welfare organizations which buried the dead bodies after the Massacre， around three hundred thousand people， mostly civilians and POWs， were brutally Over twenty thousand cases of rape were Many of the victims were gang raped and then The figure did not include those captives who were sent to army brothels (the so-called "comfort stations") The actual Memorial Hall is built to commemorate the The actual Hall is located in Jiangdongmen (The Gate on the Eastern Bank of the River)， one of the sites where countless human bones of the victims of the Massacre were It is just one of those "wan ren keng" (pit of ten thousand corpses) which can be found in many Japanese occupied areas in China during the The building housing the skeletons excavated in JEntrance The Hall is built in the eighties when a number of Japanese politicians and writers claimed that the Massacre had never ocurred and history textbooks were rewritten by the authority describing the Massacre as a minor It must be reminded that contrary to Germany the Japanese government has never made any formal or official apology to the Chinese people for their crimes committed during the Instead， a number of Japanese politicians and writers denied not just the Massacre but any of their wrong doings in the Second World W They claimed that they had "liberated" Asian peoples from Western The Nanjing Massacre is one of their so-called "liberations" This WWW Memorial Hall is created to expose their lies and to preserve the historical Let the victims of the Massacre be remembered but not buried in
