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Nanjing Massacre
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Nanjing Massacre
A six-week period after Japan’s capture of Nanjing—former capital of the Republic of China—in 1937, during which hundreds of thousands of civilians were murdered and 20,000–80,000 women were raped by soldiers of the Imperial Japanese Army


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To prepare for the film, Gallenberger travelled to China to speak with survivors of the rape of Nanking, as the genocidal campaign is known, which ultimately claimed the lives of up to 300,000 Chinese civilians.
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