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The modern generation has been programmed to think the destruction in New York on September 11, 2001 was the most terrible event ever, but it wouldn't even make the list of worst human tragedies. If you know of a "Forgotten Tragedy", please email and tell me about it.

After the bombing was over, 26,000 buildings lay in wreckage, and 25,000 men, women and children lay dead in the street or buried under the rubble. In December, 1937, Japanese forces captured the Chinese capital of Nanking. What followed was the killing of over 200,000 men, women, and children. The price of victory in France at Vimy Ridge was high: 10,500 casualties, including 3,598 dead.
By capturing the Gallipoli Peninsula, the Allies hoped to threaten the Ottoman capital, Constantinople (now Istanbul) and knock the Turks out of the World War. The bombing was generally considered unnecessary, as the war in Europe was almost over. Germans pause to remember the 35,000 victims every February. As well as the estimated two million rapes in Germany, there were between 70,000 and 100,000 in Vienna and anywhere from 50,000 to 200,000 in Hungary, as well as thousands in Romania, Bulgaria, Poland, Yugoslavia, and Czechoslovakia. The partition of India was the largest mass migration in history of some 10 million. As many as one million civilians died in the accompanying riots and fighting.
Japanese soldiers, infuriated with the Chinese for helping Doolittle's B-25 Raiders escape, retaliated by murdering an estimated 250,000 Chinese civilians. The 141st and 143rd Infantry regiments suffered 2,128 casualties in 48 hours, including 155 killed, 1,052 wounded and 921 missing or captured. Most people know about the atomic bombs dropped on Japan, but few know about the terrible loss of life when incendiary bombs were dropped on Tokyo. Many ships have sunk with horrible loss of life, but never have so many lives been lost with a single ship.
The influenza epidemic was so severe that the average life span in the US was depressed by 10 years. August 26, 1883 would mark the last 24 hours on earth for over 36,000 people, and the destruction of hundreds of coastal villages and towns. Of the estimated 1,800 American prisoners of war aboard the Arisan Maru, only 8 survived, 3 were recaptured, and 5 were rescued by Chinese fishermen. according to meticulous German records, of the 40,000 killed, the body count was 13,000 men, 21,000 women and over 8,000 children.


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