Also known as "the Schindler of Nanjing," Rabe established a safe zone for 200,000 or more Chinese refugees fleeing the Japanese rape of Nanjing in 1937. He did it with a mixture of humanitarianism, audacity and sheer bluff, and is honored as a hero in China today.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Rabe
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An excellent reminder! Thank you, T(h)ink!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Good_Man_of_Nanking
Movie: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanking_(2007_film)
Wait a minute:
Your German exercise:
http://www.spiegel.de/spiegel/print/d-8809778.html
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Rabe
Wait a minute! I mean Moment mal!
"... in US-amerikanischen Quellen als der „zweite Schindler“... bezeichnet. "
But Rabe did his work BEFORE Schindler, so the US-American sources should call Schindler "the second Rabe."
An excellent observation (Rabe was born in 1882 and Schindler in 1908).
No, I had not heard of him but I've read a lot about Japan's brutality towards the Chinese in the 30's and on. He was awful lucky to get away with that. After reading about Unit 731? I really don't know which one was the more brutal and racist between the Nazis and the Japanese.
I never understood that very darkest, evil side of human nature, how they could find so many people who could be so unspeakably cruel, like today those SOBs in ISIS that cut people's heads off.
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