Battle of Nanjing and the Rape of Nanjing Photographs

51 items in this album on 3 pages.


Aerial photo of the city wall of Nanjing, China, 1930	Chinese troops marching into Nanjing, China, late 1937

Japanese troops entering Danyang, Jiangsu Province, China, 3 Dec 1937; Danyang was about 50 kilometers or 30 miles east of the Chinese capital of Nanjing	Japanese troops with a captured German-built Chinese Army Panzer I tank, possibly near Nanjing, China, 9 Dec 1937

Japanese artillery bombarding the Nanjing city wall, China, circa 12 Dec 1937	Japanese soldier holding the severed head of a Chinese civilian, Nanjing, China, Dec 1937-Jan 1938

Japanese troops attacking the Zhonghua Gate of the Nanjing city wall with a field gun, China, 12 Dec 1937	Japanese Type 94 tankettes at the moment that the Zhonghua Gate of the Nanjing city wall was breached, Nanjing, China, 12 Dec 1937 at 1210 hours

Type 94 Te-Ke tankettes and infantry attacking a gate of the Nanjing city wall, China, circa 12 Dec 1937	Bodies of killed Chinese civilians on a street in Nanjing, China, Dec 1937; note Japnese military censor's disallow stamp

Japanese soldiers crossing a canal or moat near the Nanjing city wall, China, Dec 1937	Japanese soldiers crossing the Qinhuai River near the Nanjing city wall, China, 13 Dec 1937

Head of a Chinese man who was decapitated by Japanese placed on a barricade near Nanjing, China, 14 Dec 1937	Japanese troops ordering Chinese civilians out of an air raid shelter, Nanjing, China, 14 Dec 1937

Chinese Panzer I Ausf. A light tanks captured by the Japanese, Nanjing, China, Dec 1937	Chinese refugees, Nanjing, 15 Dec 1937

Japanese soldier dining among Chinese civilians, Nanjing, China, 15 Dec 1937	Japanese troops posing with a captured Chinese Panzer I Ausf A tank, Nanjing, mid-Dec 1937

Partially sabotaged Chinese Panzer I Ausf A tanks at the port of Nanjing, China, mid-Dec 1937	Chinese women begging Japanese troops to spare the lives of their husbands and sons who were being rounded up on Shanghai Road, Nanjing, China, 16 Dec 1937