Film of Nanjing Massacre to Be Donated by AmericanThe camera and film footage used by a US clergyman to record the atrocities of Japanese soldiers in Nanjing in 1937 will be donated by his son to the Memorial Hall of Nanjing Massacre Victims.The clergyman, John Magge, filmed scenes with a film camera when the city fell to the Japanese invaders. Many museums and individuals in the United States had offered to buy the film but were all turned downed by Magge and his son David. The film, which runs for almost two hours, provides undisputed evidence of the Nanjing Massacre, in which more than 300,000 Chinese were brutally killed by Japanese soldiers. The massacre shocked the world, but there are some Japanese who have attempted to deny that the massacre never happened. Historians say that Magge's film is the only film record of the Nanjing Massacre that has been discovered so far. In 1958, the church in Xiaguan District in Nanjing where Magge preached became a secondary school library. The local government has named it the John Magge Library. |
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