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John Rabe. November 23, 2022, would have been John Rabe’s 140th birthday. To commemorate the occasion, we’d like to honor one of the most important personalities in the history of German-Chinese relations and provide a quick look at his eventful life. John Rabe was a courageously humanitarian Siemens employee saved the Chinese civilian ...
The Rape of Nanking. Tokyo. v. t. e. The Good Man of Nanking: The Diaries of John Rabe is a collection of the personal journals of John Rabe, a German businessman who lived in Nanjing at the time of the Nanjing Massacre in 1937–1938. The book contains the diaries that Rabe kept during the Nanjing Massacre, writing from his personal experience ...
Jun 18, 2021 · Florian Gallenberger’s John Rabe (2009) is a German/French/Chinese coproduction foregrounding the eponymous director of a Chinese Siemens plant, a member of the Nazi Party who saved the lives of over 200,000 Chinese during the Rape of Nanjing. Gallenberger’s film is a work that eschews historical accuracy and fidelity to the diaries of the ...
A true-story account of a German businessman who saved more than 200,000 Chinese during the Nanjing massacre in 1937-38. After 28 years building and managing a vast Siemens plant in Nanking, John Rabe is ordered by the new Nazi regime to close it down. Before he can pack, the Japanese army, lead unofficially by a bloodthirsty imperial uncle ...
May 20, 2010 · John Rabe wanders farther from plausibility as it continues, introducing a Japanese officer who warns of an imminent raid on the safety zone, and ultimately contriving a triumphant send-off for Rabe.
Jun 24, 2019 · When John Rabe was born in Hamburg on November 23, 1882, it was into a world that was on the cusp of dramatic change. Just a year before, the rising state of Germany had delivered a surprise knockout blow to France in the Franco-Prussian War. For Rabe’s contemporaries, that meant growing up at a time of unbridled optimism.
