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Japanese Admiral Kiyoshi Hasegawa (3rd Fleet), General Iwane Matsui (Central China Area Army), Prince Yasuhiko of Asaka (Shanghai Expeditionary Army), and General Heisuke Yanagawa (10th Army) at a memorial for fallen Japanese soldiers at Minggugong Airfield, Nanjing, China, 18 Dec 1937	Japanese soldiers transporting loot with a cart at a Nanjing city wall gate, China, Dec 1937; note unburied Chinese remains

Japanese troops at the Wuxi Rail Station, Nanjing, China, Dec 1937	Dead Chinese piled on the shore of the Yangtze River near Xiaguan Pier, Nanjing, China, Dec 1937

Dead Chinese piled on the shore of the Yangtze River, Nanjing, China, Dec 1937	Japanese soldiers with a Chinese child, Nanjing, China, 19 Dec 1937

A Japanese newspaper reporting a killing contest held by the Japanese Army in Nanjing, late 1937 or early 1938	Chinese civilians prepared to be buried alive by Japanese soldiers, Nanjing, China, Dec 1937-Jan 1938

Chinese men being registered by newly arrived Japanese occupation, possibly Nanjing, China, late 1937 or early 1938	Dead Chinese child in Nanjing, China, Dec 1937-1938

G3M Type 96 bomber of Japanese Navy Kisarazu Air Group flying over the Sun Yatsen Mausoleum, Nanjing, China, 1938	He 111 E-1 bomber of KG 88 dropping bombs, Spain, 1938

Japanese bombers flying over Sichuan Province, China, circa 1938	Japanese soldier preparing to execute a Chinese man, Nanjing, China, Dec 1937-Jan 1938

Killed Chinese boy near Nanjing, China, Dec 1937-early 1938; it was said that he was killed by rifle butt blow because he did not remove his hat before Japanese soldiers	Lidice, Czechoslovakia in the 1930s.

Lidice, Czechoslovakia in the 1930s. Courtyard of the Horák family farm. The X marks the entrance to the cellars where the village men were gathered on the night of 9 Jun 1942.	Lidice, Czechoslovakia in the 1930s. Gate to the courtyard of the Horák family farm. The village men were marched through this gate and into the cellars on 9 Jun 1942.

Lidice, Czechoslovakia in the 1930s. St. Martin’s church built in 1732 seen in the distance from the village cemetery.	Lidice, Czechoslovakia in the 1930s. St. Martin’s church built in 1732 with one of the village’s barns in the foreground.