“ As the Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel warned years ago, to forget a holocaust is to kill twice. Iris Chang
“ Looking back upon millennia of history, it appears clear that no race or culture has monopoly on wartime cruelty. The veneer of civilization seems to be exceedingly thin – one that can be easily strip… Iris Chang
“ The whole story of the comfort women, the system of forced sexual slavery, the medical experiments of Unit 731, is not something that is in the US psyche. That is changing because many books are comin… Iris Chang
“ Almost all people have this potential for evil, which would be unleashed only under certain dangerous social circumstances. Iris Chang
“ Perhaps the most fascinating character to emerge from the history of the Rape of Nanking is the German businessman John Rabe. To most of the Chinese in the city, he was a hero, the living Buddha of Na… Iris Chang
“ The heroic efforts of the Americans and Europeans during this period are so numerous (their diaries run for thousands of pages) that it is impossible to narrate all of their deeds here. Iris Chang
“ The Rape of Nanking did not penetrate the world consciousness in the same manner as the Holocaust or Hiroshima because the victims themselves had remained silent. Iris Chang
“ In 1996 I began an investigation into the life of John Rabe and eventually unearthed thousands of pages of diaries that he and other Nazis kept during the Rape. These diaries led me to conclude that J… Iris Chang
