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Comparing The Holocaust And The Rape Of Nanking

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Compare the Holocaust and the Rape of Nanking in terms of their backgrounds, motifs and historical influences.

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I propose to conduct a comparative study on the Holocaust and the Rape of Nanking, mainly in terms of their backgrounds, motifs and historical influences.

Amongst all atrocities recorded in human history, the Holocaust and the Rape of Nanking rank as the most brutal and irrational in the context of the tumultuous twentieth century. During the World War II, these two mass exterminations, later referred to as pogrom, genocide, or ethnic cleansing, took place on two continents as the modern form of violence under the jurisdictions of two wartime regimes, the Nazis Germany and the militarist Japan. The two shared striking similarities and differences. The following serves as some examples.

Speaking of the similarities, Nazis Holocaust has pilloried untold number of lives, as has the Rape of Nanking. Both of them executed, mistreated and enslaved civilians and prisoners of war, forced non-combatants to labor, used human subjects to test biological and chemical weapons, and coerced abused women as military prostitutes. They were conducted as military strategies, self-justified by radical claims of high-minded ideologies (e.g. Social Darwinism, Pan-Asian Liberation), and …show more content…

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