Nanking Massacre In The Holocaust

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I read some articles about Nanking massacre in the past, especially about the 100 heads thing. And, when I read about it then, I just saw it as another mass killing. I think now that I have gained more knowledge about problems in the world that I see this in a whole different light. When I went to the holocaust museum I saw this section where there was video who dead bodies of people that were killed in a gruesome way. When I read this article, I realized the way those bodies were killed were the same way the Japanese army killed thousands of Chinese people. I not trying to say that the one was worse than the other, but I didn’t more research on Nanking massacre. And, in the Holocaust the Nazi main goal was to exterminate all Jews; and they

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