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On December 13, 1937, Japanese invaders occupied Nanjing, the capital of the Republic of China, and caused one of the most brutal massacres in human history, the Nanjing Massacre.

In Chinese textbooks, this incident is described in great detail as the "Nanjing Massacre." Over the six weeks following the capture of Nanjing, the Japanese military systematically and premeditatedly committed mass murder, rape, arson, and looting of innocent civilians and POWs who had laid down their weapons. The number of victims is specified as more than 300,000, and this is said to be based on the records of the postwar Nanjing Military Tribunal and the International Military Tribunal for the Far East.

The textbook describes specific examples of atrocities such as mass shootings, stabbings, burying alive, and beheading contests, and also mentions the ``Nanjing Safety Zone'' established by John Rabe, a German businessman who was in Nanjing at the time, and American missionaries. The Great Nanjing Massacre is regarded as an incident that symbolizes the essence of Japanese imperialism's invasion of China, and the significance of the national public holiday held on December 13th every year is emphasized, along with the lesson that ``to forget history is betrayal.''

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