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The filmfs assumption is based on one forged document so-called gTanaka Memorialh in which Japanese Prime Minister Tanaka Giichi allegedly announced Japanfs evil plan for the conquest of the whole world to the Emperor.
The validity of the document was, however, very scant from the first. The allegation was made on only alleged gtranslationsh in English and Chinese. gOriginalh Japanese version of the document was never found. If one says that the original was deliberately lost or hidden, the manner with which the document was written was so horribly wrong and inadequate for the letter that was presented to the Emperor anyway, that one would assume very suspicious. Even the prosecutors of the infamous Tokyo Trial, its entire procedure was hideously unfair and unjust, had to admit that the Tanaka Memorial was fake, after all.

Apart from it, the film is full of inaccuracies and pernicious distortions. The film claims that many Chinese civilians are suffered by the Japanese bombings on Shanghai, for instance. However, according to gthe China Year Book 1938h (edited by prominent China scholar, H.G.W. Woodhead, C.B.E.), it was Chinese planes who bombed international Settlement in Shanghai and killed almost 2000 civilians including foreign nationals in August 1937. The book never mentions wrong-doings in Japanese side. As for the infamous gRape of Nankingh, the book just states in Event Calendar, December 13, 1937; gNanking occupied by Japanese.h
The China Year Book 1938 features the statements on the Sino-Japanese War and the appeal to the League of Nations of General Chiang Kai-shek, the leader of the Chinese Nationalist Party, but he never mentions gmassacreh or whatsoever of Nanking or anywhere else.

I presume many readers know about the famous Life magazine photograph of a baby crying all alone in a Shanghai station that was bombed by Japanese Navy Air Force. But what unknown to many is that, in fact, the baby was deliberately put there to cry one day after the Shanghai South station was bombed. Furthermore, the station was in fact a Chinese Army communication centre, therefore, actually no civilians were there, let alone a wounded, lonely poor baby.
Any way, the photograph in question was originally cut from a newsreel taken by H.S. Wong, a.k.a. gNewsreel Wongh. In this gdocumentaryh, Frank Capra actually included a part of Wongfs staging session for the gcrying babyh. You can see a Chinese man (Wong?) carrying the baby to the gseth platform in the station.

This propaganda film may be looked cunning at the first glance, but, if you watch it with very careful eyes, you can see many odd things going on in it. For example, on the wall of the room in which gJapanese high rank officersh are gconspiringh, there are posters and slogans in Chinese language. And, the soldiers who are executing some Chinese men in civilian clothes are, in fact, the Chinese Nationalist Party Army! And many, many more!

It is so obvious and ridiculous, almost laughable. But it is not funny when you realise that so many people in the world believe this is a genuine gdocumentary filmh.
It is sad fact that there are staggeringly many people who even donft know China and Japan is separate two countries. Not to mention to distinguish between the Chinese and the Japanese. I cannot do it, either. Then, who can tell a naked dead body is the Chinese or the Japanese? The most pathetic fact is that there are so many gscholarsh who accuse Japanese Army of massacring the Chinese civilian being based on pictures or gnewsreelsh of naked dead bodies. Please do not forget that, in China, many Japanese soldiers and civilians were killed and stripped by the Chinese as well. The gmassacredh body you are looking at may have been Japanese.

A great series!
At what point should you go to war? How far can you dibate an issue before it's too late? The thought process is almost dizzying. This film gives a possible view of what might have happened should action not have been taken. Thank God the English stepped up to the task as quickly as they did. It's nice to believe that there is never a time for war. War is ungly, and heart breaking, but to say there is never a time for war is naive. I highly recommend this as both a learning source and also as something to provoke you into thought.

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This four disc set from Frank Capra and the US Armed Forces is an interesting piece of documentary film. The seven films are loaded with historical information as well as propaganda. Some of the things said here, Amazon.com would never let me repeat. But it is a piece of our history--of the war, or our military, of world politics, and of the propoganda machine. It's worth watching, especially with the information we have now. Disc one contains 'Prelude to War' (which covers the initial aggressive acts of Italy, Japan, and the Nazis) and 'The Nazis Strike' (covers the Nazis early conquests); disc two contains 'Divide and Conquer' (mostly the fall of France) and 'The Battle of Britain' (covers the attacks made on England); disc three contains 'The Battle of Russia' (the longest of the seven films, this one runs almost an hour and a half and covers the invasion of Russia and the Nazis retreat--lots of unintentional irony here); and disc four contains 'The Battle of China' (covers the Japanese invasion of China) and 'War Comes to America' (the final documentary just sorts of rehashes the other films and then pumps us up as to why we fought the war and makes excuses for not going into it earlier).