Bernhard Arp Sindberg rescued thousands of Chinese during the Japanese imperial army's orgy of violence in Nanjing in 1937. He is only now getting national hero status in Denmark. Queen Margrethe ...

now Nanjing, on December 13, 1937, and embarked on a killing frenzy. It is estimated that about 300,000 people, including defenceless women and children, were murdered over about six weeks.

looting and arson after Nanking--China’s capital at the time--fell on Dec. 13, 1937, after bitter street fighting in Shanghai. The city’s name is now spelled Nanjing under the pinyin ...

Addressing soldiers, students, and survivors of the December 1937 killings carried out by occupying Japanese ... “History will not permit anyone who would deny the facts of the Nanjing atrocity.” ...