Japan's last WWII veterans of Nanking massacre open up

Sawamura turned numb when he was ordered to bayonet a Chinese peasant. "You captured him, so you get rid of him," his lieutenant stated, pulling Sawamura toward his victim. "I stumbled forward and thrust the blade into his body until it came out on the other side. We were told not to waste bullets. It was training for beginners." In 2009, in a last-ditch attempt to keep dark memories alive, Tamaki Matsuoka made a documentary film (Torn Memories of Nanjing) in which veterans of the Imperial Japanese Army speak - for the first time on film - about the massacre which took place after Japanese troops overran the Nanking in 1937.

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