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The Nanking Massacre

Instructed by Robert Holden

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Please note that graphic content may be shown.

Mr. Holden will show a short film about his 2006 trip to China to study The Nanking Massacre and other atrocities committed by the Japanese against the Chinese through the thirties until 1945.

It will be noted that The Second World War did not actually begin in 1939 with the Nazi Invasion of Poland on September 1st (from the West and the Soviets from the East, splitting Poland into two terrified subjugated areas.) The focus will be on the murder of some 300K Chinese citizens in the then Chinese capital city of Nanking, which became known as The Rape of Nanking in 1937.

Iris Chang’s landmark book, The Rape of Nanking will also be shared and discussed.

Mr. Robert Holden is a retired Ocean City Gifted/talented teacher (ret.-2006) and retired Senior Adjunct Professor of History, teaching WC 1, WC 2, and his own created Holocaust and Genocide Studies Course at ACCC’s Cape May County campus. (ret. -2016)

He is on the board of the SJHC, the HPSUT and the Seaville Friends Meeting.

He has published several secondary history curriculum guides and two books, Upper Township and its Ten Villages and Visas to Shanghai (about the Chinese diplomat, Feng-Shan Ho who saved thousands of Viennese Jews during the Holocaust by writing them exit visas), both of which are available to check out from the library.

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