Revisionist Videos
There are many of the revisionist type of videos about Nanking. I found some 29 on You Tube. However, I found that some of these were exactly the same videos, but posted by different people. One video was posted by three different people; three other videos by two different people each, and one video was posted by four different people. That means there are 8 duplicates, which put the actual number of separate postings at 21. The names of the videos may be different, but the are still exactly the same videos.
Each time there is group, I will only do a screen capture from one of the videos, since all three would be exactly the same.
There are also many videos that duplicate a good portion of another video. After going through the “anti” videos, I would say there may be a dozen separate videos rather than the 29 I started with.
Some of the videos in this series also have extremely long descriptions. I am not going to include those descriptions here; if you want to read them, go to You Tube and put in the name of the video.
One thing to note for this group of videos; it's always harder to prove the non-existence of something than it is to prove somethings existence. The burden of proof on anything like this, though, lies with those who say something happened. On the other hand, those who say nothing happened, or it wasn't as bad as history indicates, need to provide clear, understandable evidence to support their side. That might be hard to do in these short videos, but it is something that is essential.
Group 1
"THE RAPE OF NANKING" IS JUST A PROPAGANDA, posted by Reinosuke.
Nanking Massacre was a Chinese & U.S.A. propaganda 2 to 6, posted by urusebaka.
The Truth of The Nanjing of 1937.12 - 1938.2 (5), posted by baca999.
The video opens with a bunch of Japanese on horseback in parade form. It then seems to show troops standing at attention for the Japanese national anthem (although it's hard to tell; either the sound is very bad, or the guys playing the instruments were pretty bad. Or a little of both.)
After that it shows a bunch of soldiers eating and then another closeup of the Japanese flag. After that it shows, I believe, a Buddhist ceremony for the dead.
The video's only narration is in Japanese. There are no subtitles. Unless a person speaks Japanese, then, there is no way of knowing what is being said in the video, so it's value as evidence against the idea of the Rape of Nanking is nil, at least for those who only speak English. The text furnished by the first person is long, but it does not clarify at all anythig going on in the video.
Group 2
Nanking Massacre was a Chinese & U.S.A. propaganda 6 to 6, posted by urusebaka.
The Truth of The Nanjing of 1937.12 - 1938.2 (6), posted by baca999 .
Neither of these videos included any description of what was going on in the video.
The video opens with some kind of parade by the soldiers. Then it shows nurses taking care of wounded soldiers. Again, the narration is in Japanese and there are no sub-titles. There's yet another parade.
Group 3
THE "NANKING MASSACRE" IS THE FALSE ACCUSATION posted by Reinosuke.
Nanking Massacre was a Chinese & U.S.A. propaganda 3 to 6, posted by urusebaka.
This video does have a description from the contributor. The person writes that “The film shows a crowd of inhabitants coming to get ID cards at the card issuing office opened in the Safety Zone by the Japanese Army. This has been conducted during the period of December 24, 1937, through January 5, 1938, in order to identify the citizens, separating them from the soldiers. We can observe that the Chinese people in Nanking shown in the pictures aren't in fear of the Japanese soldiers at all.”
The other part of the film shows what is probably a soldier in the hospital and then being transported somewhere. Again, all the narration is in Japanese.
Group 4
The Truth of The Nanjing of 1937.12 - 1938.2 (4), posted by baca999.
Nanking Massacre was a Chinese & U.S.A. propaganda 1 to 6, posted by urusebaka
Neither contributor added any description to their posting of the video. The video seems to show some of the damage to the walls around Nanking, and then shows Japanese flags flying from those walls. It then shows other areas of the city and the damage in those areas. There is one scene of Japanese troops frisking some Chinese.
Group 5
WHO WITNESSED "NANKING MASSACRE"? Part2 , posted by Reinosuke
Nanking Massacre was a Chinese & U.S.A. propaganda 4 to 6, posted by urusebaka.
The Truth of The Nanjing of 1937.12 - 1938.2 (1), posted by baca999.
The Truth of The Nanjing of 1937.12 - 1938.2 (1), posted by FUMIBO2.
The video opens with what seems to be images of a refugee camp. It shows scenes of people eating and stuff like that. Then there's scenes of Japanese troops possibly clearly debris, and a scene of troops helping a horse to stand that had fallen down.
The purpose of this video seems to be showing people going around their lives as normal, considering the damage done to the city, of course.
Group 6
The following two videos were obviously all made from the same original program. There are different portions of the original video being used, so there's going to be overlap in screen captures.
NANKING MASSACRE
From: TAMAGAWABOAT
The original program was longer, but the person making the video fast-forwarded through parts of the program. The general thinking of this video is that the photos of the Rape of Nanking are all fake; therefore, there was no Rape of Nanking. The American (I assume) in the video speaks excellent Japanese.
Some points that the video claims:
It says that the Chinese have used the idea of the Nanking massacre “to arouse anti-Japanese sentiment among the Chinese people.”
It brings up the point of soldiers who were there, who said they was a massacre, and that they are liars.
They get into a discussion about the difference between a “massacre” and a “slaughter.”
The video claims the Chinese have been increasing the number of victims year by year.
The entire concept of the Rape of Nanking started as war propaganda by China.
The photos that show the Rape of Nanking are fake.
Since the photos are all fake, it is “common sense” for us to doubt that the Rape of Nanking ever happened.
There are no photographs of any vast number of corpses in Nanking.
THE NEWS OF NANKING MASSACRE
From: TAMAGAWABOAT0
Again, a slightly different selection of scenes.
This one is about the press agencies and what they did or did not know about Nanking. The man on the panel that is defending the idea of the Nanking massacre does a very poor job when a woman on the panel asks him for specific examples about news agencies that were on the scene and took photos.
They also claim that the population of Nanking did not change for ten days, and therefore there was no massacre.
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