When people in Europe think about World War II they think about Hitler the Holocaust. When Americans think about World War II they think about Pearl Harbor and about Hitler and the Holocaust. But there was just as much evil and suffering going on in East Asia.

Nanking fell to Japanese troops on December 13th, 1937. For the next seven weeks, the Japanese conducted countless atrocities against the Chinese population of the city. It is something that people in Europe and America, who have lived in comfort and relative peace for the past 60 years, can’t fully appreciate.

Princeton has a photo gallery about the crimes. Some Japanese still deny that anything happened here, but, as they say a picture is worth a thousand words. A warning: Many of these images are extremely violent and disturbing. Proceed at your own risk.

I hope that people will understand that wars, no matter where and for what cause, always cause great suffering to people who have done nothing to deserve it. That was the case hundreds of years ago, it was the case in 1937, and it is still the case today.