> The exact history of Nanking is not dwelled upon... <
Now that you mentioned it, here’s the story of John Rabe, a Nazi businessman who was in the city at the time. I came across this story by accident. Rabe saved about 200,000 Chinese from being massacred by the Japanese. Remarkable.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Rabe
See post 17, above.
Did you know that after the war, things got so bad for John Rabe and his family during de-Nazification that they had begun to eat WEEDS..?
And apparently he had made such an impression on Nankingers —then still verrrry poor— that the Nanking authorities sent a delegration, which smuggled food from Switzlerand to Germany, to save his whole family..?
A really amazing bit of history.