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Frenchman's Mislabelled War Photos Donation Sparks China Controversy

Chinese tourists view photos of Japanese war crimes at the Nanjing Massacre Memorial Museum in Nanjing in 2014 (Credit: AFP)

A Frenchman's donation of vintage conflict photographs to China offers insight into the 1930-1940s Sino-Japanese War -- even if some images are not the unique family heirlooms he believed them to be.

Marcus Detrez landed in Beijing last month with a leather briefcase that he said contained hundreds of his grandfather's pictures from the conflict, which ended in 1945 after widespread atrocities in China.

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