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Old 10-10-2007, 09:27 PM   #10
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Originally Posted by Jeff Lebowski View Post
Can't say as I blame you. It is not for the faint of heart. But there is actually an uplifting component to it. There was an "Oscar Schindler"-like character in Nanking. He was a Nazi officer who did quite a bit to save Chinese from the Japanese soldiers. His story was largely untold until Iris dug it up and wrote about it in her book.
I've read of him. Much of the information about the massacre we have comes from his records, as I recall.

For those of you who don't know much about it, wikipedia has an article that's fairly lengthy. Even reading that makes me sick, though.
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