The 300,000 civilian death toll was credited to an anonymous source, employed by a known propagandist, and not even made in relation to the Nanjing Massacre.
The occupation of Nanjing is an event for which Japan can take no pride. The 300,000 tally, however, is pure fantasy. It is time to...
~The Chinese government claims 300,000 died, but Nanjing University’s Dr. Lewis S.C. Smythe and Chinese field workers in 1938 found only 2,400 had been killed...