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US Clergyman Honored for Recording Nanjing Massacre
This east China city has built a library named after a US clergyman who risked his life filming Japanese soldiers' atrocities here in 1937.
John Magge filmed massacre scenes with a film camera when the city fell to the Japanese invaders.
The 105 minutes of film footage is strong evidence of the Nanjing Massacre, in which more than 300,000 Chinese were brutally killed by Japanese soldiers, historians say.
The massacre shocked the world, but there are some Japanese who attempt to deny it.
Historians say that Magge's film footage is the only film record of the Nanjing Massacre that has been discovered so far.
In 1958, the church in Xiaguan District where Magge preached was turned into a secondary school library. The local government has now named it the John Magge Library.
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