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English: December, 1937. Chinese women on Shanghai Road, inside the Nanking Safety Zone, kneeling and begging Japanese soldiers for the lives of their sons and husbands when they were being collected at random on the suspicion of being ex-soldiers [1]. Thousands of civilians were taken in this way, bound with ropes, carried to the river bank in Hsiakwan, to the edges of ponds, and to vacant spaces where they were killed by machine-guns, bayonets, rifles, and even hand grenades [2]. (Film #2 by John Magee)
This photo was taken by John Magee behind a window during Nanking Massacre. John Rabe, a German merchant who served then as chairman of the Nanking International Committee of the Nanking Safety Zone, kept one copy and preserved it with his diaries written during the horrible massacre. The photo was published along with the diaries in 1998.
中文：1937年 12月 16日，上海路。中国妇女下跪请求日本士兵不要杀害她们的儿子和丈夫，他们仅仅是因为被怀疑当过兵而被无情地驱赶在一起。成千上万的平民也这样用绳索捆绑起来，驱赶到下关的扬子江边、众多的小池塘边和空旷的场地上，在那里他们遭到机关枪扫射、刺刀砍杀、步枪齐射，甚至被用手榴弹处决。（约翰·马吉拍摄的电影胶片，编号#2. 德国驻华使馆政务秘书罗森报告，1938年1月20日）
日本語: 南京、上海路の中国人女性たち。息子や夫たちが元兵士の疑いで手当たりしだいに集められたため、脆いて日本軍にかれらの命乞いをしている。何千人もの一般市民がこのように縄で縛られ、下関の川岸や、池のへり、空き地に連れて行かれ、機関銃、銃剣、歩兵銃、さらには手榴弾で殺害された。
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Source John Rabe, Erwin Wickert. The good man of Nanking: The diaries of John Rabe. A.A. Knopf, 1998. page 279
Author John Magee
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