Nanjing Massacre Museum

16. A Look Back at the Massacre Museum

We leave the museum with some sadness for this blot on mankind's barbarism to other mankind.

The Japanese looted all the storehouses and seized virtually everything from the civilians. The loot included jewelry, coins, domesticated animals, food, clothes, antiques, and even inexpensive items such as cigarettes, eggs, fountain pens, The Japanese organized burning of buildings in the city. After they had set fire to buildings using either gasoline or some other inflammable chemicals, they hid, waited for and killed people who came to extinguish the fire. Numerous people were killed by fire. The Japanese burned Nanjing, once a beautiful historical city, to ashes.