A pawnshop owner's viral TikTok video, in which he said he received an album of over 30 previously unseen photos of the Nanjing Massacre, has sparked backlash over the ethics of posting graphic historical materials online without expert verifying that they're real.To get more news about nanjing massacre tiktok photos, you can visit shine news official website.

Evan Kail, the pawnshop owner and TikTok creator who posted about the photos last week, said a client brought him the album to sell. A relative of the client was a soldier stationed in Southeast Asia in the late 1930s and apparently documented his time there, Kail said.

"Somehow that guy who took those photos was present for the Rape of Nanking, and he took about 30 photographs that are unknown to history that are worse than anything I've ever seen on the internet," Kail said in the video, which has 25 million views.
Kail has been widely criticized for posting images from the album without having authenticated them first.

Some online also accused him of using the photo album, as well as the tragedy of the massacre, to gain social media followers.

Kail said he didn't expect his video and subsequent tweets to go viral.

"I thought it was of extreme historical significance no matter what was in it," Kail said in a statement to NBC News. "And so what you saw is what I made, and I was not expecting it to go global so fast. That just completely ran away from me."

The client’s album, he said, "screwed" him up. “And finally when I made that video it was just a lot of emotion I was digesting, and speaking without thinking," he said.

Kail told NBC News that the photos turned out to be from Shanghai, not Nanjing. He said he couldn’t elaborate further on the advice of his lawyer.The Nanjing Massacre, also known as the Rape of Nanjing, was the mass killing of Chinese civilians and soldiers by the Japanese Imperial Army from December 1937 to January 1938, after Japan seized Nanjing, then the capital of China, during the Second Sino-Japanese War. The city's name was previously romanized as Nanking.

During the six-week massacre, the Japanese Imperial Army executed residents, looted and burned buildings and raped tens of thousands of women. The death toll is estimated to be 40,000 to 300,000; the mass graves and the destruction of the city have made a precise count "impossible," according to the University of Southern California Shoah Foundation, which recorded and preserved testimonies from survivors in a digital archive.

Kail said online that the gruesome photos in the album depict bodies piled on the streets, executions and graphic torture. In his original video, he said that he was posting about the album to alert the research community and that he couldn't post many of the photos on TikTok because they violated its community guidelines.

"This is the most disturbing thing I've ever seen in my career, and I desperately need your guys' help," Kail said in the video.

Some commenters urged Kail to document the photos and post them online to spread awareness of the brutality of the event, pointing out that some people have disputed the estimated death toll or deny that the massacre happened at all to absolve Japan.

In 2012, a Japanese mayor sparked outrage when he said the "so-called Nanjing Massacre is unlikely to have taken place." In 2017, Japanese hotel mogul Toshio Motoya received backlash for distributing a revisionist book throughout his chain of 400 hotels. The book, a collection of essays he wrote for the hotel newsletter, claimed that evidence of the Nanjing Massacre was "fabricated by the Chinese side and did not actually happen.