 Chang wrote of the death toll estimates given by different sources ; Chinese military specialist Liu Fang @-@ chu proposed a figure of 430 @,@ 000 ; officials at the Nanjing Massacre Memorial Hall and the procurator of the District Court of Nanjing in 1946 stated at least 300 @,@ 000 were killed ; the International Military Tribunal for the Far East ( IMTFE ) judges concluded that more than 260 @,@ 000 people were killed ; Japanese historian Fujiwara Akira approximated 200 @,@ 000 ; John Rabe , who " never conducted a systematic count and left Nanking in February " , estimated only 50 @,@ 000 to 60 @,@ 000 ; and Japanese author Ikuhiko Hata argued the number killed was between 38 @,@ 000 and 42 @,@ 000 . 
