It's worse than the other photos I'd seen. Honestly I was ignorant about Nankling until today and fucking hell that took me to a dark place. Like actually had to take a break from work and go for a walk type thing.
Ah, Nanking is all sorts of fucked up. Japan was there for 6 weeks going absolutely insane.
Prince Yasuhiko Asaka never received any form of punishment for his involvement either...
Prince Yasuhiko Asaka never received any form of punishment for his involvement either...
Saw the death numbers and was just staggered. Felt so ignorant. Saw some of the Japanese commanders and soldiers got theirs but the country seems very reluctant to apologise.
Even the chapter in the World at War docu series about it doesn't go into the awful depths of the event (it does for the jewish genocide).
But yeah, the wiki article alone is chilling enough, and there's only small hints and quotes from first hand accounts both from victims and perpetrators. Some of the worst things you'll ever read.
But yeah, the wiki article alone is chilling enough, and there's only small hints and quotes from first hand accounts both from victims and perpetrators. Some of the worst things you'll ever read.
By Laboured Go To PostSaw the death numbers and was just staggered. Felt so ignorant. Saw some of the Japanese commanders and soldiers got theirs but the country seems very reluctant to apologise.Tens of thousands of rapes and hundreds of thousands of murders.
They literally had 2 soldiers racing to kill 100 Chinese people by sword and ran tallies of it
in the paper like a cricket match.
It was brutal
By DY_nasty Go To Postyeah im gonna need a stiff drink before i look at any of this
Yeah, you do. Hell on Earth stuff. Unit 731 stuff but applied to unwitting civlians.
Not sure any two nations have hated each other more than Japan and China. But fuck me that's altered my view on Japan some.
By Laboured Go To PostYeah, you do. Hell on Earth stuff. Worse than Unit 731 stuff but applied to unwitting civlians.Kinda hard to rank what was worse. I mean Nanking was wholesale slaughter but 731 was disguised as something good but turned out to be nightmare fuel.
731 was called the Epidemic Prevention and Water Purification Department and presented themselves as soldiers who wanted to help citizens.
Interesting fact about 731 was that it predated German experiments by almost a decade and was the inspiration for them
Yeah you're right and also bringing what was "worse" into genocide discussions is stupid shit so that's my bad.
By blackace Go To PostTens of thousands of rapes and hundreds of thousands of murders.
They literally had 2 soldiers racing to kill 100 Chinese people by sword and ran tallies of it
in the paper like a cricket match.
It was brutal
By Righteous Furry Go To PostThe Supernova In The East series of Hardcore History has an episode on Nanking iircYea it was fucking excellent. Highly recommend this series. Japan really made it out lucky because they got put in a microwave by America.
A day late, but always worth celebrating Cromwell's death. Man was a tyrant and ultimately responsible for the deaths of at least half a million Irish people.
By Lunatic Go To PostYea it was fucking excellent. Highly recommend this series. Japan really made it out lucky because they got put in a microwave by America.Naw, that's not even why. That's more how people feel now. tbh it's hard to tell if Japan played America or if America played itself. But Japan came out super well protected and regarded...
We gotta talk about some of the amazing post-war PR campaigns countries and factions have gotten away with.
Japan, Switzerland, American South, etc
Japan, Switzerland, American South, etc
Wonder what the Venn diagram is for present day Thatcherites and people who hold Cromwell in high regard
Man they really don’t teach history in America. In high school I got 95s so I thought I was good
I’m taking a post civil war history class and in my first paper, I have to write about Jim Crow laws. I knew the basics but never knew that the term grandfather originated here. I also had no idea how fucked up it was..
Why do we still use this term to say something like “I’m grandfathered in to my cell phone plan”
I’m taking a post civil war history class and in my first paper, I have to write about Jim Crow laws. I knew the basics but never knew that the term grandfather originated here. I also had no idea how fucked up it was..
Why do we still use this term to say something like “I’m grandfathered in to my cell phone plan”
By Old King Rob Go To PostMan they really don’t teach history in America. In high school I got 95s so I thought I was goodThere are a ton of phrases that have roots in slavery or Jim Crow that get used today.
I’m taking a post civil war history class and in my first paper, I have to write about Jim Crow laws. I knew the basics but never knew that the term grandfather originated here. I also had no idea how fucked up it was..
Why do we still use this term to say something like “I’m grandfathered in to my cell phone plan”
Stuff like "sold down the river", "cakewalk", and so on have racist roots.
Shit, don't get me started on nursery songs 😂
By DY_nasty Go To Postwar has changedTwittter fingers
Disagree
By Lupercal Go To PostLooks like your average 4chan user without the sword collection.functional is important
Besides drip so hard in the 7th century that people in 2022 still want to be you
By blackace Go To Postfunctional is importantHadn't thought of it like that, that's some transcending drip indeed.
Besides drip so hard in the 7th century that people in 2022 still want to be you
By Perfect Blue Go To Post
Was reading the article about it. Would love to visit, if they ever open it.
As Pintado sat in her garage, sifting through the papers, she found another document that was just as confounding as the doctor’s note. It was a birth certificate, which indicated that her mother had given birth to a girl in the Santa Cristina maternity clinic in Madrid. “Good appearance and vitality, good coloration,” a hospital staff member wrote. The paper was dated on Pintado’s birthday, July 10, 1973. There was even a room number: 22.
Pintado took a closer look at the birth certificate. She could see that someone had torn off the top third of the paper, leaving a jagged edge behind. Her birth certificate had been tampered with; there had been something here that someone wanted to hide. “I knew this couldn’t be my mother,” she told me. “And that’s when I thought, I might be a stolen baby.”
Pintado had long known about the phenomenon of babies stolen from hospitals in Spain. The thefts happened during the end of the regime of Francisco Franco, the right-wing dictator who ruled the country until 1975, and even today the disappearances remain a subject of mystery and debate among scholars. According to the birth mothers, nuns who worked in maternity wards took the infants shortly after they were delivered and told the women, who were often unwed or poor, that their children were stillborn. But the babies were not dead: They had been sold, discreetly, to well-off Catholic parents, many of whom could not have families of their own. Under a pile of forged papers, the adoptive families buried the secret of the crime they committed. The children who were taken were known in Spain simply as the “stolen babies.” No one knows exactly how many were kidnapped, but estimates suggest tens of thousands.https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/27/magazine/spain-stolen-babies.html
Jesus christ
Damn, there's probably so much cool shit on the ancient coastlines that're now permanently underwater
This too:
This too:
Any good documentary on the IRA/northern Ireland/vsEngland?
I've seen BBC's Who Won The War?. recommended
I've seen BBC's Who Won The War?. recommended