Summary

Japanese soldiers torture Chinese citizens during Second Sino-Japanese War

Source Sherman Grinberg
Newsreel Paramount
Negative # C4794
Clip SR002203_03_01.mov
Date 1/1/1940
Title Japanese soldiers torture Chinese citizens during Second Sino-Japanese War
Description VS Japanese soldiers push back Chinese people in crowd / soldier kicks woman away, pulls child along with him / another soldier pulls a child away from a Chinese woman / soldier throws child into air; another soldier waits to spear the child with his bayonet / QS horrified Chinese woman / CU Chinese child's face / QS child flung off bayonet / soldiers drag Chinese people to pit, throw them in as dead bodies surround / throwing dead bodies into pit / foot pushes shovel into dirt / throwing dirt on a person who may or may not be dead / Chinese man writhes on ground / dead man placed on stretcher / tilt-down shot truck drives away with corpses in its bed / Note: exact year not known
Country China

Keywords

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