Women over the age of 70 and under the age of 8 were dragged off and raped. Estimates say that between 20,000 and 80,000 women were gang raped then either shot or stabbed in their genitals to death. Reports of babies being slit open in order to be raped are not uncommon. Not even pregnant women were safe, several reports exist of them being raped and then killed by having their bellies split with a bayonet.

Japanese troops would raid houses with entire families cowering within. They would force fathers to rape their daughters, sons to rape their mothers, brothers to rape their sisters. There was quite literally no depths that their depravity would not plumb. On 10th February 1938, Legation Secretary of the German Embassy, Rosen, wrote to his Foreign Ministry and here is an excerpt:

“On December 13, about 30 soldiers came to a Chinese house at #5 Hsing Lu Koo in the southeastern part of Nanking, and demanded entrance. The door was open by the landlord, a Mohammedan named Ha. They killed him immediately with a revolver and also Mrs. Ha, who knelt before them after Ha’s death, begging them not to kill anyone else. Mrs. Ha asked them why they killed her husband and they shot her…

… Mrs. Hsia was dragged out from under a table in the guest hall where she had tried to hide with her 1 year old baby. After being stripped and raped by one or more men, she was bayoneted in the chest, and then had a bottle thrust into her vagina. The baby was killed with a bayonet. Some soldiers then went to the next room, where Mrs. Hsia’s parents, aged 76 and 74, and her two daughters aged 16 and 14. They were about to rape the girls when the grandmother tried to protect them. The soldiers killed her with a revolver. The grandfather grasped the body of his wife and was killed. The two girls were then stripped, the elder being raped by 2—3 men, and the younger by 3. The older girl was stabbed afterwards and a cane was rammed in her vagina. The younger girl was bayoneted also but was spared the horrible treatment that had been meted out to her sister and mother. The soldiers then bayoneted another sister of between 7—8, who was also in the room. The last murders in the house were of Ha’s two children, aged 4 and 2 respectively. The older was bayoneted and the younger split down through the head with a sword”.

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