r/TerrifyingAsFuck • u/TheMrMorbid • Mar 14 '24

war Chinese prisoners being buried alive by their Japanese captors outside the city of Nanjing, during the infamous Rape of Nanjing, 1937.

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u/Porchmuse Mar 14 '24

One of the most horrifying aspects of pictures like this to me is the casual nature of the crowd in the background. Sort of like soldiers who have to hear the commander’s safety briefing before they’re released for the three day weekend.

It’s like they’re thinking, “come on, you’re cutting into happy hour…”

We can be so terrible to each other for no good reason.

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u/darklavendr Mar 14 '24

The scariest thing about this is that Japan has tried to hide the massacre of nanjing for years. Japan is heavily romanticized in the west (in my opinion). A lot of the people who are interested in Japanese media or culture are not aware of what japan did in ww2. They should definitely read into it.

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u/Pablomablo1 Mar 15 '24

We learn one thing from history, that is we never learn from it.