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Nov 6, 2018 · Titled So Very Far From Home, the film looked at the lives of young American, British, Australian, and Dutch children who were civilian POWs in China during the years leading up to and through World War II. Their fictionalized stories were the basis of Steven Spielberg’s epic film Empire of the Sun.
- Bill Einreinhofer
Nov 1, 2018 · Shanghai: 1937: Directed by Bill Einreinhofer. With Edward Drea, Zhiliang Su, Hans van der Ven, Liliane Willens. When did World War II begin? Shanghai: 1937 answers that question in a way most audiences will find surprising.
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- Documentary
- Bill Einreinhofer
- 2018-11-01
- The Start of The Second Sino-Japanese War
- Unit 731
- The Beginning of The Second Sino-Japanese War
- The Rape of Nanking
- Comfort Women and The Genocide of Hui Muslims
- The Aftermath
The first shots of the Second Sino-Japanese War were fired on Sept. 18, 1931. Eight years before Germany would invade Poland and instigate World War II in Europe, three Japanese officers, looking for any excuse to invade China, planted a bomb near their railway tracks in Manchuria. They planned to blame the explosion on the Chinese and use the atta...
Nearly as soon as Manchuria was under their control, the Japanese began to perform human experiments on their Chinese victims. Japanese Surgeon General Shirō Ishii was fascinated by the use of chemical warfare in World War I, and he was determined to make chemical weapons the key to Japanese victory in the Second Sino-Japanese War. By 1932, he'd al...
By some counts, the Second Sino-Japanese War began with the invasion of Manchuria. Others, though, put the beginning at July 7, 1937, when the fighting hit full swing. The instigator into full-out war has been hailed the Marco Polo Bridge Incident, when a Japanese soldier, Private Shimura Kikujiro, disappeared from his post there. The Japanese dema...
Between Dec. 13, 1937, and Jan. 30, 1938, Japanese forces rounded up, tortured, and murdered up to 300,000 Chinese civilians and surrendered soldiers. The massacre, which came to be known as the Rape of Nanking, was horrifying. People were mutilated, beaten, or slaughtered wherever they were found. Two Japanese soldiers, Toshiaki Mukai, and Tsuyosh...
The Hui Muslims of China were nearly completely eradicated during the Second Sino-Japanese War. Their extermination was an official policy of the Japanese army. As the Japanese marched into China, they burned down the mosques and massacred the Hui Muslims by the thousands. Every desecration imaginable was pushed on them. Mosques were smeared with p...
In time, the tides of war turned. The Second Sino-Japanese War erupted into the full-fledged World War, and with the help of the Allied nations of the world, China was able to fight the Japanese invaders off of their soil. But few in the West know about the horrors the Chinese endured. Every schoolboy learns about the Holocaust and the Blitzkrieg i...
Bloody Saturday (Chinese: 血腥的星期六; pinyin: Xuèxīng de Xīngqíliù) is a black-and-white photograph taken on 28 August 1937, a few minutes after a Japanese air attack struck civilians during the Battle of Shanghai in the Second Sino-Japanese War. Depicting a Chinese baby crying within the bombed-out ruins of Shanghai South railway ...
Plot. Shanghai: 1937. Jump to Edit. Summaries. When did World War II begin? Shanghai: 1937 answers that question in a way most audiences will find surprising. Americans might say December 7,1941 - The day the Japanese Imperial Navy attacked the American naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.
Nov 8, 2018 · Based on the book “Shanghai 1937: Stalingrad on the Yangtze” by Danish author Peter Harmsen, this film introduces key figures in the conflict, chronicles how the battle unfolded over the course of three months, and explores the aftermath and years of war that followed.
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This revealing film gives a new historical perspective that suggests the Battle of Shanghai in 1937 was the first battle of World War II.
