Historians dispute a pawnshop owner's viral TikTok video in which he claims he found unseen photos of the Nanjing Massacre.
Evan Kail said he was "speaking without thinking" when he posted the viral video. He told NBC News that the photos turned out to be from Shanghai, not Nanjing.Sept. 7, 2022, 4:28 PM UTCA pawnshop owner's viral TikTok video, in which he said he received an album of over 30 previously unseen photos of the Nanjing Massacre, has sparked backlash over the ethics of posting graphic historical materials online without expert verifying that they're real.
"Somehow that guy who took those photos was present for the Rape of Nanking, and he took about 30 photographs that are unknown to history that are worse than anything I've ever seen on the internet," Kail said in theKail has been widely criticized for posting images from the album without having authenticated them first.
The client’s album, he said,"screwed" him up. “And finally when I made that video it was just a lot of emotion I was digesting, and speaking without thinking," he said. During the six-week massacre, the Japanese Imperial Army executed residents, looted and burned buildings and raped tens of thousands of women. The death toll is estimated to be 40,000 to 300,000; the mass graves and the destruction of the city have made a precise count"impossible," according to the University of Southern California Shoah Foundation, which recorded and preserved testimonies from survivors in a digital archive.
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