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🗓️ 17 December 2018
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Japanese troops reached the Chinese city of Nanjing in December 1937. The violence that followed marked one of the darkest moments in a struggle that continued throughout WW2. Rebecca Kesby has been speaking to former General Huang Shih Chung, who survived the slaughter in Nanjing as a boy and then fought in China's war of resistance against the Japanese.
Photo: Huang Shih-Chung as a young soldier.
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0:36.1 | Kespi. And in December 1937 invading Japanese forces captured the Chinese city of Nanjing, killing and raping thousands. |
0:46.6 | It was one of the darkest moments of a war that continued through World War II. |
0:51.6 | I've been speaking to a man who survived that slaughter as a boy and who then |
0:56.1 | fought in China's war of resistance against the Japanese. |
0:59.9 | As the Chinese armies retire for mile after mile, as they evacuate city after village, half a million square miles ravaged by the scorching heat of war. |
1:09.0 | I was only 14 at the time. |
1:15.0 | The night before I left, we didn't sleep. |
1:19.0 | Our family was Christian, so my parents prayed to God to protect me. They told me, follow your teacher, take care of |
1:25.9 | yourself and stick with your classmates, don't go off on your own. |
1:29.7 | Huang Shur Chung's family lived in Nanjing, or Nan King as it was known then. |
1:34.8 | Just a few days before the massacre, he was one of thousands of children, evacuated out of the |
1:40.4 | path of the advancing Japanese. They were hurried away on foot with their school teachers. |
1:45.5 | My mother cried, but my father was very calm. We didn't know when we'd see each other again. |
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