“We would need quite a large ditch to take care of them, but we cannot find one easily. One solution might be to divide them into groups of hundred or two hundred and lead them to some other places to execute each group one by one.” (Yamamoto 94)

“…last night, seven Japanese soldiers entered the University of Nanking library building and took seven Chinese women refugees, three of whom were raped on the spot.” (Brook 10)

“From one building in the safety zone, four hundred men were selected by the local police under compulsion from Japanese soldiers, and were marched off tied in batches of fifty between lines of riflemen and machine gunners.” (Timperley 19)

“…there were many cases of Japanese soldiers entering Chinese houses and raping women or taking them away. This created panic in the area and hundreds of women moved to Ginling College campus yesterday…” (Brook 10)

“…a woman was taken with 5 others from No. 6 Chien Ying Hsiang ostensibly for washing cloths for Japanese officers…the women washed cloths during the day and were raped throughout the night. The older ones being raped from ten to twenty times; the younger and good-looking ones as many as forty times a night… (Timperley 158)

“At noon, December 14, on Chien Ying Hsiang, Japanese soldiers entered a house and took four girls, raped them, and let them return in two hours.” (Brook 11)

“Last night, December 15, Japanese soldiers entered a Chinese house on Hankow Road and raped a young wife and took away three women. When two husbands ran, the soldiers shot both of them.” (Brook 11)

“…today it is a city laid waste, ravaged, completely looted, much of it burned. Complete anarchy has reigned for ten days—it has been hell on earth.” (Timperley 19)

“Some families have had their houses entered, robbed and their women raped as much as five times in one night.” (Brook 17)

“…three Japanese soldiers came to Wu Tiao Hsiang, Drum Tower, and carried off a girl of little over ten years of age. The same family had been visited by three Japanese soldiers on Jan. 28, who raped two women.” (Timperley 164)

“On the night of December 15 a number of Japanese soldiers entered the University of Nanking building at Tao Yuen and raped 30 women on the spot, some by six men.” (Brook 28)

“Feb. 5, a Japanese soldier came to the house of Mr. Chen at Te Chung Bridge, near His Hwa Gate, and asked for a girl. At there was no girl he pulled away a young man of about seventeen or eighteen years old and committed sodomy.” (Timperley 165)

“A man came to the University Hospital on December 15. He had been carrying his 60-year uncle into the Safety Zone and soldiers shot his uncle and wounded himself.” (Brook 28-29)

“On the night of December 16 seven Japanese soldiers broke windows; robbed refugees; wounded a University staff member with a bayonet because he had no watch or girl to give them; and raped women on the premises.” (Brook 29)

“Feb. 5. An old woman named Chen, over sixty, at San Pai Lou, was visited by three Japanese soldiers. One was stationed outside while the other two raped the old woman by turn. One of the soldiers asked her to clean the penis by her mouth. Her grandson was stabbed twice for crying.” (Timperley 165)

“At 4 p.m. on December 16 Japanese soldiers entered the residence at 11 Mokan Road and raped the woman there.” (Brook 30)

“On December 16 Dr. Smythe's house at 25 Hankow Road was entered five times by stray soldiers looking for hoa ku niang (good girls).” (Brook 30)

“On December 17 Japanese soldiers went into Lo Kia Lu No.5, raped four women and took one bicycle, bedding and other things. They disappeared quickly when Hatz and myself appeared on the spot.” (Brook 30)

“On December 17 in a small house behind my house at Siao Tao Yuen, Kan Ho Yen, a woman was raped and stabbed. If she gets medical help today she can probably be saved. The woman's mother was badly beaten in the road.” (Brook 31)

“On December 17 at Lang Yah Lu (opposite Lo Kia Lu) a young girl was pulled into a house and raped.” (Brook 31)

“On December 17 near Judicial Yuan a young girl after being raped was stabbed by a bayonet in her abdomen.” (Brooke 32)

“From a primary school at Wu Tai Shan many women were taken away and raped for the whole night and released the next morning, December 17.” (Brooke 32)

“At Wu Kyia home garden three men were killed and two women were taken away and cannot be found.” (Brooke 32)

“Wu Zian-tsing, living at No. 18 Kan Ho Yen: On the night of the 16 th at eight o'clock, there came two Japanese officers and two soldiers. They drove out the men. Some women (neighbors) ran away. Those who remained inside the house (who could not get away) were raped. One vest of the soldiers was left in the house. Wu Zian-tsing herself, aged 30, was raped by them.” (Brooke 32)

“December 17. Two soldiers came into my residence at No. 9 Noh Kan Lu and carried away my son, daughter-in-law and aunt.” (Brooke 32)

“December 18, evening, 450 terrorized women fled for shelter to our office and spent the night in our yard. Many had been raped.” (Brooke 33)