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16 - The Nanjing Massacre

from Part II - World War Two

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 June 2023

By
Yuki Tanaka
Edited by
Ben Kiernan ,
Wendy Lower ,
Norman Naimark  and
Scott Straus
Ben Kiernan
Affiliation:
Yale University, Connecticut
Wendy Lower
Affiliation:
Claremont McKenna College, California
Norman Naimark
Affiliation:
Stanford University, California
Scott Straus
Affiliation:
University of California, Berkeley
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In March 1932 the Japanese government annexed northeast China and set up the Manchukuo puppet state there. In reality, Manchukuo was a Japanese colony governed by the most powerful of the Japanese army units, the Kwantung Army. In February 1933, the Kwantung Army invaded the Chinese province of Rehe, and as a result, all areas north of the Great Wall and north of Beijing came under Japanese control.

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The Cambridge World History of Genocide , pp. 379 - 400
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2023

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