Minnesota Pawn Shop Owner Claims To Have Discovered Lost Photos Of Nanjing Massacre

In a video posted on TikTok with over 9.5 million views, Evan Kail says a customer sent him an old photo album from WWII with the intention of selling it. When he opened the album and inspected its contents, he found disturbing photographs labeled as having been taken during the December 1937 massacre, which lasted six weeks and saw at least 200,000 Chinese civilians killed by the Imperial Japanese Army. At first glance, the photos do not appear to be anything out of the ordinary. More from NextShark: ‘What the phở’: TikToker Goes Viral for His Videos of Indistinct Asian Restaurant Names “Soldier is in Southeast Asia, probably around 1937-1938, and it starts out OK,” says Kail. “But the pictures are starting to relate more to the war here.” He continues turning the page to what are presumably images of the Nanking Massacre — also known as the Nanking Massacre or the Rape of Nanking — but stops, saying “I can’t show you what’s beyond this page.” “When I got this book on Monday, and I opened it and got past that page, I screamed,” says Kail. “Somehow, this guy who took these pictures, was present for the Nanking rape. He took about 30 photos that are unknown to history, which are worse than anything I’ve seen in color on the internet — these photos are in black and white.” More from NextShark: Malaysian father who takes his baby everywhere as he delivers food gives netizens the feeling “I studied Japanese studies and we covered the Rape of Nanking and I remember my professors telling me that the photographic evidence was mostly destroyed by the Japanese,” he continues. “There are very, very few pictures out there. This guy took pictures of things that I’ve read about in books that I didn’t even realize anyone had ever recorded before.” The story continues However, questions about the validity of the photos remain unanswered for now. For example, the photo album lists the ship its owner sailed on as the USS Augusta. According to the Naval History and Heritage Administration, the Augusta was not in Nanking at the time of the massacre, which began on December 13, 1937. Although the ship had previously been to Nanking several times, it was in Shanghai on December 12, nearly 300 km away, when he attempted the survivors of a gunboat and three tankers whose ships were sunk by Japanese naval planes north of Nanking. More from NextShark: Billionaire investor Chamath Palihapitiya says ‘nobody cares’ about Uyghurs in China Image via @pawn.man Additionally, Khail shared some of the photos on Twitter, most of which are extremely graphic. They depict beheadings, corpses with their hands tied behind their backs and a man tied to a post and tortured to death with knives with the caption ‘Death by a thousand cuts’. Twitter users were quick to point out that some of the images shared have been posted online in the past with contexts that contradict the captions written on the album. Similar images of the man being tortured to death have been published in the past and are described as depicting the execution of a man named Fu Zhuli. The image of a man being publicly beheaded is available as a stock photo and is listed as “Public Execution of a Communist in the Streets of Nanking 1927”. More from NextShark: AI-generated Pikachu images are the furthest thing from kawaii Kail ends his video with a plea to his viewers to “blast this video to see the proper channels that I have it and contact me” in hopes that his content will be preserved and studied further. Featured image via TikTok

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In a video posted on TikTok with over 9.5 million views, Evan Kail says a customer sent him an old photo album from WWII with the intention of selling it. When he opened the album and inspected its contents, he found disturbing photographs labeled as having been taken during the December 1937 massacre, which lasted six weeks and saw at least 200,000 Chinese civilians killed by the Imperial Japanese Army. At first glance, the photos do not appear to be anything out of the ordinary. More from NextShark: ‘What the phở’: TikToker Goes Viral for His Videos of Indistinct Asian Restaurant Names “Soldier is in Southeast Asia, probably around 1937-1938, and it starts out OK,” says Kail. “But the pictures are starting to relate more to the war here.” He continues turning the page to what are presumably images of the Nanking Massacre — also known as the Nanking Massacre or the Rape of Nanking — but stops, saying “I can’t show you what’s beyond this page.” “When I got this book on Monday, and I opened it and got past that page, I screamed,” says Kail. “Somehow, this guy who took these pictures, was present for the Nanking rape. He took about 30 photos that are unknown to history, which are worse than anything I’ve seen in color on the internet — these photos are in black and white.” More from NextShark: Malaysian father who takes his baby everywhere as he delivers food gives netizens the feeling “I studied Japanese studies and we covered the Rape of Nanking and I remember my professors telling me that the photographic evidence was mostly destroyed by the Japanese,” he continues. “There are very, very few pictures out there. This guy took pictures of things that I’ve read about in books that I didn’t even realize anyone had ever recorded before.” The story continues However, questions about the validity of the photos remain unanswered for now. For example, the photo album lists the ship its owner sailed on as the USS Augusta. According to the Naval History and Heritage Administration, the Augusta was not in Nanking at the time of the massacre, which began on December 13, 1937. Although the ship had previously been to Nanking several times, it was in Shanghai on December 12, nearly 300 km away, when he attempted the survivors of a gunboat and three tankers whose ships were sunk by Japanese naval planes north of Nanking. More from NextShark: Billionaire investor Chamath Palihapitiya says ‘nobody cares’ about Uyghurs in China Image via @pawn.man Additionally, Khail shared some of the photos on Twitter, most of which are extremely graphic. They depict beheadings, corpses with their hands tied behind their backs and a man tied to a post and tortured to death with knives with the caption ‘Death by a thousand cuts’. Twitter users were quick to point out that some of the images shared have been posted online in the past with contexts that contradict the captions written on the album. Similar images of the man being tortured to death have been published in the past and are described as depicting the execution of a man named Fu Zhuli. The image of a man being publicly beheaded is available as a stock photo and is listed as “Public Execution of a Communist in the Streets of Nanking 1927”. More from NextShark: AI-generated Pikachu images are the furthest thing from kawaii Kail ends his video with a plea to his viewers to “blast this video to see the proper channels that I have it and contact me” in hopes that his content will be preserved and studied further. Featured image via TikTok