Major conflict1937 – 1938 · 1 year

Battle of Nanjing and Nanjing Massacre

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Nanjing · Jiangsu

Estimated casualties

500Ksingle estimate · no range published

Fall of Nanjing and subsequent atrocities.

Belligerents2

Republic of China
Japan

ON THE MAPEmpire of Japan (1937)

Conflict graph

PART OFSecond Sino-Japanese War

Sources

Wikipedia — text reused under CC BY-SA 4.0

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Cite as: Battle of Nanjing and Nanjing Massacre (1937 – 1938). War Atlas. https://waratlas.org/c/nanjing-massacre · Sources & methodology