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I don't really want to click on this link, but have read some horrific descriptions of the event.

Anyone care to share what the link contains and why its on the front page of HN?

Click the link. He doesn't show the actual pictures, just talks about the photo book that a customer brought in to get appraised, and his shock when he found pictures of the rape of Nanking in it.

This blew up on TikTok several weeks ago, and I haven't yet seen any new updates since.

edit; Why the hell was this post flagged? There's nothing graphic in the link.

He specifically skips over showing any actual photos taken. His claim is it's ~30 photos of the Rape of Nanking, previously unseen. The video is a plea to get them to a museum to be preserved, because most evidence was destroyed.

Some pawnshop owner found a book documenting Nanking but it doesn't show any disturbing images .

as I mentioned in another reply, this album has been completely debunked -- it's not "fake fake". But it's just not at all a collection of actual WW2 Nanjing photos, and it's still not clear to me why the TikToker assumed that (if we imagine him acting in good faith).

But if this pawn shop owner in Minneapolis had serendipitously found an album of actual never-before-seen documentary photos of a famous, horrific but relatively unknown war crime -- then crowdsourced attention/support via Tiktok to get those photos to where they could be verified and authoritatively disseminated? That would definitely (imho) be HN front page material -- just a classic Internet power-of-the-masses type story.

They don't show anything in the TikTok. It's a photo album from a soldier that apparently has pictures of the rape of Nanking, he stops before he gets to the explicit photos.

It doesn't show anything graphic. It's a guy explaining that he discovered an old photo album depicting the Nanking atrocities.

A guy found an album of photographs that includes unprecedented photos of Nanking's massacre. But they don't show them...

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