{"id":1879,"date":"2011-04-08T08:27:48","date_gmt":"2011-04-08T14:27:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asylumeclectica.com\/grim\/?p=1879"},"modified":"2011-04-08T08:27:48","modified_gmt":"2011-04-08T14:27:48","slug":"morbid-fact-du-jour-for-april-8-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/?p=1879","title":{"rendered":"Morbid Fact Du Jour For April 8, 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Today&#8217;s Bestial Yet Truly Morbid Fact!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In November 1937, after their successful invasion of Shanghai, the Japanese launched a massive attack on Nanking, the newly established capital of the Republic of China.  When the city fell on December 13, 1937, Japanese soldiers began an orgy of cruelty seldom if ever matched in world history.  An estimated 20,000-80,000 Chinese women were raped.  Many soldiers went beyond rape to disembowel women, slice off their breasts, nail them alive to walls.  Fathers were forced to rape their daughters, and sons their mothers, as other family members watched.  Not only did live burials, castration, the carving of organs, and the roasting of people become routine, but more diabolical tortures were practiced, such as hanging people by their tongues on iron hooks or burying people to their waists and watching them get torn apart by German shepherds.  So sickening was the spectacle that even the Nazis in the city were horrified, one proclaiming the massacre to be the work of a &#8220;bestial machinery&#8221;. Tens of thousands of young men were rounded up and herded to the outer areas of the city, where they were mowed down by machine guns, used for bayonet practice, or soaked with gasoline and burned alive.  For months the streets of the city were heaped with corpses and reeked with the stench of rotting human flesh.  Years later experts at the International Military Tribunal of the Far East estimated that more than 260,000 noncombatants died at the hands of Japanese soldiers at Nanking in late 1937 and early 1938, though some experts have placed the figure at well over 350,000.  The death toll of Nanking &#8211; one Chinese city alone &#8211; exceeds the number of civilian casualties of some European countries for the entire war.  (Great Britain lost a total of 61,000 civilians, France lost 108,000, Belgium 101,000, and the Netherlands 242,000.)<\/p>\n<p>Culled from: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0140277447\/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;tag=theasylumeclecti&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=0140277447\">The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=theasylumeclecti&#038;l=as2&#038;o=1&#038;a=0140277447\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s Bestial Yet Truly Morbid Fact! In November 1937, after their successful invasion of Shanghai, the Japanese launched a massive attack on Nanking, the newly established capital of the Republic of China. When the city fell on December 13, 1937, Japanese soldiers began an orgy of cruelty seldom if ever matched in world history. An [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-facts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1879"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1879\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}