Analyzing the âPhotographic Evidenceâ of the Nanking Massacre

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Table of ContentsList of AbbreviationsPrologueSearch for the Origins of the “Photographic Evidence”Chapter 1.Realities of the Battle for NankingChapter 2.The First “Photographic Evidence”Chapter 3.Additional Photographs that are Meticulous ForgeriesChapter 4.Misleading use of Photographs of Known OriginsChapter 5.Conclusion: No Photographs Can Stand as Viable Historical Evidence2
List of AbbreviationsCCPGMDICNSZIMTFENDGPOWQINHUAChinese Communist PartyGuomindang [Chinese Nationalist Party]International Committee for the Nanking Safety ZoneInternational Military Tribunal for the Far EastNanking daigyakusatsu no genba e [To the Site of the Rape of Nanking]prisoner of warQinhua Rijun Nanjing Datusha Zhaopianji [Pictorial Collection of theInvading Japanese Army’s Violence in Nanking]RBSREKISHIRikou Baoxing Shilu [Authentic Record of Japan’s Brutal Acts]Nankin daigyakusatsu: Rekishi no shinjitsu o kataru sokuseki to shōgen[The Rape of Nanking: The Evidence and Eyewitness Accounts thatNarrate the Truth of History]RON-IRON-YYSEFSNDThe Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War IIThe Rape of Nanking: An Undeniable History in PhotographsShanghai Expeditionary ForceShashinshū: Nankin daigyakusatsu [A Pictorial Collection of the NankingMassacre]WMRBWairen muduzhong rijun baoxing [Japanese Violence As Witnessed byForeigners]ZKHZhongguo Kangzhan Huashi [Pictorial History of China’s Resistance War]1
Page 1: Analyzing the “Photographic Evide
Page 5 and 6: heard about the Rape of Nanking. I
Page 7 and 8: Discovery of a “top secret” GMD
Page 9 and 10: only in the Chinese edition of Timp
Page 11 and 12: Photos C and D, which appeared in t
Page 13 and 14: Nanking massacre was published with
Page 15 and 16: Chapter 1: Realities of the Battle
Page 17 and 18: August 12, the Chinese army’s for
Page 19 and 20: Crisscrossed runningcanals.” Mans
Page 21 and 22: “Death-defying aerial photograph
Page 23 and 24: Sunday, November 28: Wang Gupan, ch
Page 25 and 26: Zhonghua Gate. Viewphotographed fro
Page 27 and 28: Escape of garrison commander TangTh
Page 29 and 30: Soldiers shouting “banzai” on t
Page 31 and 32: soldiers from civilians. Again, thi
Page 33 and 34: For example, combatants who are cap
Page 35 and 36: Graph: Nihon no senreki [Mainichi G
Page 37 and 38: An important fact is that the Japan
Page 39 and 40: the city.Given the non-occurrence o
Page 41 and 42: Victory ceremony in front of the GM
Page 43 and 44: Nanking Citizens Relinquishes Anti-
Page 45 and 46: I heard a hymn accompanied by an or
Page 47 and 48: Children riding mules in front ofNa
Page 49 and 50: with Chinese staff members of the s
Page 51 and 52: One week after the fall of Nanking.
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Peddlers wishing to trade withJapan
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My mission was to visit the office
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Chapter: The First “Photographic
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Analyses of Group A photographs1. S
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Contemporary Japanese publications,
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Of course, the image of a lone infa
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Photos D and E are in a booklet ent
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(c) Bombing of the USS PanayRBS lis
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Photos C and D: The Panay sinking i
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about-to-take-place beheading was a
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(a) Four military personnel at the
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of a living person posing for the c
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Apart from this speculation, anothe
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8. Apparently, no one in uniform ha
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the quote above makes it clear that
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Photo A: A clip of Photo 13 as prin
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Photo 15: “Shatou.” The first a
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Formation of thegroundPhoto C: “P
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Four identical individuals are show
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As for Chiang Kai-shek and his GMD,
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3. Still Images of Dead BodiesIf th
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Timperly may well have selected thi
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According to the RBS’s caption,
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Photos 26-28:RBS was the first sour
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One can easily point out difference
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Shanghai. Several photos I saw when
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In 1998, however, Hata Ikuhiko unea
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Photo E: Asahi Graph, 10 November 1
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Photo I: The original of Photo 36 w
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Photo J: This is the original of Ph
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however, stated that the girl in th
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Group B photographs: Photographs th
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WMRB introduces Photo 45-51 as scen
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Photo 48Photo 49117
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According to the caption of Photo 5
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Agnes Smedley describes how the Com
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Photo 58Photo 59Photo 60123
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The RBS caption of Photo 62 says,
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Conclusion: Composite, Play-up, Rep
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The following sources made referenc
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Horizontal and vertical ratio of th
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Photo 133
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have not been seen by anyone else u
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137
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The same background as the “origi
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Photo G Photo F Photo CPhoto C: RON
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“Courtesy of Marion Fitch”RON-Y
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some 50 photographs which he had ta
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Fitch Photos -(21)Photo 93 Photo 91
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Photo B Photo A Photo 84Photos 84 a
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Photo 88Photo 88: An identical phot
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and 90, one may assume that the pho
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Forty-five years later, however, Na
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Japanese side. But [the unearthed m
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(2) Alleged murder of childrenAmong
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It is Carl Mydans, an American in C
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inspired anti-Japanese sentiment am
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Another notable fact is that a sold
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military have appeared in several N
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Photo 102Photo 102: One of the phot
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Photo PPhoto OPhoto O: Watashi no j
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In one case a [Communist] Party mem
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In view of such a Chinese tradition
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army’s conduct after its entry in
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Photo 108Photo 108: “[C]hildren b
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Photo UPhoto U: Type-94 light armor
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Army rose near Zhonghua Gate.” Ju
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(11) Images of Shanghai re-captione
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Chapter 4: Misleading use of the Ph
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* Magee photo (1)Magee’s film (MF
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* Magee photo (3)MF: Group of women
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This photograph has been cited as e
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(d) Ulterior motive behind the incl
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discrepancy between the realities i
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Photo 126Photo 126: RON-YY, which f
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Images Photographed by the Westerne
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As for Photo 130, RON-YY said, “O
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Photo A Photo 131Photo 131: Second
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and she found the following passage
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Images Photographed by the Japanese
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Photo 134Photo 134: Zusetsu Shōwa
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Photo FPhoto DPhoto EPhotos D and E
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much larger number POWs obeyed a sm
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Photo IPhoto 136Photo I: Fukyoka sh
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As for Nihon no shinryaku: Chūgoku
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Shanxi Province, and Nomonhan durin
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half open. Since Murase most likely
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Map 2Map 2: “Assault on Nanking.
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Photo N: A photograph among the rec
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emoved them away from the shore to
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find an old man lying on the ground
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spring or summer time—as illustra
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correspondents who assisted in the
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e-captioned pieces. This publicatio
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