Originally posted by MORAY37
Hmmm... just like the world KNEW about 1.6 million jews in Nazi Germany right?
Maybe some people in the world KNEW. The world at large did not know.
Once again the general population might have been somewhat ignorant of the genocide because, #1 Governments restricted the press, #2, Nobody really cared about European Jews, #3, The Nazis made a swell attempt at secrecy. But International Jewish groups certainly "knew" and in fact Lobbied Churchill and Roosevelt heavily to at least bomb the death camps.
Both leaders refused to because the Germans had made it clear they would execute allied POWs if such attacks occurred.
But Nanking was different in that it was a spur of the moment rape of an International city by a Japanese army, and their Govt., who could have cared less if anyone "knew".
We even knew Emperor Hirohito's uncle was in charge at Nanking but we cut a deal with the Emperor after the surrender to not prosecute the Japanese royal family to ensure Jap cooperation for Macarthur's new constitution that ensured Japanese Democracy post war.
