In March 2020, the COVID-19 epidemic spread around the world. The Chinese Embassy in Germany received a special letter stating that a German doctor and his family were infected with COVID-19, so they personally requested China for protest supplies and resources. After receiving the letter, the Chinese Ambassador to Germany immediately reported it to the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology. Under the guidance of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, under the same shortage of domestic anti-epidemic materials, he quickly arranged for domestic protest drug manufacturers to cooperate in production, and decided to double the free drug donation, plus Nanjing The city government urgently raised 30,000 masks, 620 bottles of protest medicine and 200 sets of protective clothing, and sent them to Germany by special plane. The embassy in Germany then drove 700 kilometers to personally deliver the medicine and supplies to the German doctor.
Who is this German doctor who wrote the letter? Why did China spare no effort to help a German? This is all because his grandfather is John Rabe. You may not have heard of this name, but it was Mr. Rabe who fought in the extremely dangerous environment during the Nanjing Massacre in 1937. He saved 250,000 Chinese refugees and provided them with asylum. He also wrote the famous "Rabe's Diary", which recorded a large number of shocking facts with his unique identity and perspective, and witnessed the crimes committed by Japanese militarism in Nanjing. The heinous crime of "Rabe Diary" tells the world the truth about the Nanjing Massacre from the perspective of a third country. "Rabe Diary" is a German film based on the true descriptions in "Rabe Diary". The screenwriter and director are also We are Germans. Let us understand what the Nanjing Massacre looked like in the eyes of Germans.
In November 1937, this was the third to last day before Mr. Rabe was about to leave China. He was the director of Siemens China in Germany. He had lived in China with his wife Dora for 27 years. He has a habit of recording his daily life in a diary every day. Under Rabe's management, Siemens' electrical power generation business and telephone communication business in Nanjing are doing very well, but recently he suddenly received an order to promote him from the headquarters. Let him return to Germany, so Rabe has been busy moving recently, and this will soon become the residence of the new director Fries, who is also a Nazi.
Rabe prepared a Nazi-style welcome ceremony for Frith, who succeeded him, and took him to visit the factory. The purpose of Frith's replacement was not to run the Nanjing factory, but to close it. Bei was very sad when he heard the news. He didn't understand why the headquarters suddenly closed the Nanjing factory. At this time, the Japanese army had invaded Wuxi and was preparing to move west to capture Nanjing. As the commander of this operation, the young Major Xiao Ben, his plan The troops were divided into three groups to encircle Nanjing and force Nanjing to surrender without causing too much damage. However, Prince Asaka Palace Hatohiko, the uncle of Emperor Hirohito of Japan, said that China is like an elephant and cannot use siege to consume his physical strength. , and cannot be captured alive, but must be killed directly.
Robert, an American doctor at Nanjing Hospital, is making emergency arrangements. He requires doctors and nurses to be on call 24 hours a day, to increase beds and operating tables, and to add surgical drugs, because he knows that if the Japanese invade Nanjing Hospital, it will be overcrowded. , at the farewell party that night, friends and senior officials from all over the world came to see Rabe off. There was singing and dancing here, but there was murderous atmosphere outside the city. The Japanese ambassador to China said unabashedly, "The Chinese should thank the Japanese for helping them govern." Country"
Just as Rabe was giving a farewell speech to everyone, bombs continued to explode nearby. The dance came to an abrupt end. Everyone fled in panic. Japanese fighter planes began to bomb Nanjing indiscriminately. The city was filled with flames, and the Nanjing Massacre shocked the world. From this moment on, Rabe rushed back to the factory with his wife, and the Chinese were refused entry to the factory
When Rabe saw this scene, he cursed. Reese dissuaded and ordered the factory door to be opened immediately. People ran into the yard and were blown away as soon as they entered. As this factory is a power plant, people will definitely become bombing targets of the Japanese army. Rabe concentrated on his wisdom and asked the Chinese to turn on all searchlights. He was able to take out a huge Nazi flag and work with the workers to unfurl the flag and let all the evacuating citizens hide under the flag. In view of the alliance between Germany and Japan at the time, this Nazi flag, which was regarded as a scourge by the whole world, was at this moment After becoming the protective umbrella of the Chinese compatriots, the Japanese army did not bomb again
One after another, the planes swooped down and then left. Rabe successfully rescued everyone. The city of Nanjing, which had been bombarded indiscriminately, was already a sea of ??flames. There are ruins everywhere, countless people are dead and injured, the hospital is overcrowded, the number of casualties is increasing, the doctor is already overwhelmed with operations, the anesthetic has been used up, the nurse asked for a solution, Dr. Robert is exhausted, Rabe led the workers to check the machine room, arrange them Fill the shell craters and build shelters for the citizens.
Tomorrow is the day when Rabe leaves Nanjing, but he still sticks to his post. Fries drove a car to escape, and Rabe asked People closed the door to stop him. Frith wanted to immediately replace Rabe and close the factory, fire the workers, and take away the factory documents in the trunk. However, Rabe argued hard that as long as he was still in Nanjing, he would not give up the factory. worker, Rabe returned home, and his wife also expressed dissatisfaction with her, complaining why he had to leave Nanjing and meddle in his own business. According to Rabe’s arrangement, the Siemens factory will provide shelter for the refugees. The garden at home They also set up shelters with Nazi flags. Rabe believed that as an ally of Germany, the Japanese army would not bomb here. Japanese aircraft dropped leaflets on the city of Nanjing that they bombed. The leaflets shamelessly read "Japanese soldiers are Your trustworthy friend."
Nanjing has been abandoned by the Chinese army. The remaining ambassadors and international friends sat together to discuss countermeasures. The German Ambassador Dr. Rosen suggested learning from Shanghai’s practice and setting aside a civilian safety zone in Nanjing. Establishing a neutral committee for management, Rabe felt that this was a bit exaggerated. At this time, Rabe still naively believed that the Japanese as allies would not kill innocent people indiscriminately, and distributed a daily peace declaration to everyone. Before he finished speaking, Dr. Robert, who was covered in blood, walked in tiredly. He suppressed his anger and said, "While you were drinking tea and chatting here, more than a dozen children died on the operating table, some with broken legs, some with punctured abdomens, With only half of their brains left, they were operated on without anesthesia, but the children still died." Only then did everyone realize.
What the Japanese did was not as peaceful as they advertised. Ms. Vautrin immediately proposed to establish a Nanjing Safety Zone Committee like Shanghai. Since Rabe knew Nanjing better than any of them, he also With the status of the Nazi Party, he could deal with the Japanese as an ally, so everyone voted by a show of hands to appoint Rabe as chairman of the committee. Rabe was originally going to leave Nanjing tomorrow, but he still decided to accept everyone's appointment and suggested that Dr. Robert As the vice chairman, on the other side, a large force of the national army was driving into the ambush of the Japanese army. After a short resistance, Major Kobori won the victory, but this still angered Asaka Gong Jiuhiko, because Major Kobori did not kill them all. Instead, he mercifully brought back thousands of prisoners of war. Even though Major Kobori said that killing these prisoners of war was against international law, Asaka Miyakohiko still arrogantly ordered the killing of the prisoners of war, so these thousands of national troops were about to be killed. Shooting overnight
The Japanese army shouted, "Stand up, let's drink hot soup for you." The prisoners of war stood in a row. The Japanese army drove trucks and set up machine guns to shoot at the unarmed prisoners of war like an assembly line. After a round of shooting, and then re-shooting the surviving prisoners of war one by one, the young Major Xiao Ben could not bear to close his eyes in the face of the brutal and bloody militarism. At night, Rabe played the piano, and the people taking refuge in the garden quietly Looking up and listening, his life had undergone earth-shaking changes, and he did not have the heart to tell his wife that he was going to be the chairman of the safety zone committee
This was the first day they were planning to build the safety zone, and it was also the day Rabe On the day he was originally scheduled to leave Nanjing, he failed to show up. Robert could not stand Rabe's status as a Nazi. He disdainfully took out a list and said, this is the list of passengers on today's ship, Rabe and his wife's. His name is on the list. Is Rabe probably running for his life too? Ms. Vautrin did not believe it. They hurried to the horse head, and sure enough they saw Rabe and his wife crowded in the crowd and preparing to board the ship to Europe. After his wife boarded the ship, Rabe stopped and did not get on. The ship, he had already decided to stay in Nanjing. His wife looked at Rabe understandingly and asked him to take care. Rabe walked down the gangway and waved goodbye
At this time, there was a roar in the sky, and the Japanese plane suddenly arrived. They flew over Ma Tou and flew towards the ship. The planes caught up with the ship and started bombing indiscriminately. They would rather kill 100 people by mistake than let one go. Without their permission, no one would be able to leave Nanjing? Rabe watched the bombed ship helplessly. He could do nothing but shout his wife's name. Rabe stayed up all night. The unknown life and death of his wife and the brutal acts of the Japanese made him more determined to establish a safe zone< /p>
On November 22, 1937, the Nanjing International Safety Zone was officially established. Within a few days, thousands of refugees poured into the safety zone, causing the work of the committee to be paralyzed. It was calculated that in one day, More than 23,000 refugees have entered the safe zone, which is completely beyond their imagination. The staff said that the safe zone can only accommodate 100,000 people and no more. But Rabe has lived in China for 27 years and knows that the Chinese people can endure hardships and stand hard work. , he believed that a place that could accommodate 100,000 people must also be able to accommodate 200,000 people. What was urgently needed now was the food problem, so he kept going there before the Japanese entered the Nanjing Committee
The safe zone transports food and supplies. The Japanese army has 600 fighter planes in Shanghai, plus tank troops. With such a large army, once an attack is launched, Nanjing will only be dead. The national army deployed its only troops at the city gate, and they are ready to die. Resist and defend Nanjing with their lives. Late at night at the Japanese military camp, Matsui Iwane asked Major Kobori why he changed the encirclement strategy to offensive. Major Kobori said apologetically that this was the prince's instruction. Uncle
He took advantage of this blood relationship and wanted to demonstrate the superiority of the Japanese army, so he ordered a direct attack on Nanjing. Under his command, a raid was launched that night. The national army resisted to the death, but in the face of With the Japanese army's numerical superiority and modern weapons, the city of Nanjing was breached in just one night. The citizens fled in panic. As soon as the Japanese army entered the city, Nanjing Hospital was extremely busy. A doctor came to the hospital carrying an injured soldier. Robert When the doctor found out, he hurriedly stopped him, but when he learned that the injured soldier was actually the doctor's son, he admitted them into the ward.