(Rabe’s diary) Before the fall of Nanjing, Rabe hurried back to Nanjing from his vacation in Qinhuangdao. Many people thought that it was too late to run away, so why go back and wade through such muddy waters? But Rabe believed that he was in China has survived for decades, and the fate of this country can no longer be separated from his own. There is no reason to act as a coward with foreign status at this time, so he insists on staying. When Japanese planes were bombing every target in Nanjing all day long, a large number of civilians lost their shelter. Rabe accidentally discovered that the Nazi flag that Siemens had been flying could play a protective role. He immediately opened the company door to let the street Thousands of people poured in and saved their lives under the Nazi banner. ? Under the threat of Rabe, who was a member of the German Nazi Party and had multiple political identities, he forced the Japanese army, which had originally imposed a transportation blockade on the safety zone, to open the gates and allow food and medicine to be successfully transported, saving hundreds of thousands of lives. Moreover, he took the lead in donating his savings and pooled money with others to buy high-priced military rations from the army to ensure that more people would not starve to death or freeze to death. In these short few months, Rabe slept less than 4 hours a day, had diabetes attacks every day, and almost ran out of all his insulin. He said that if God had to end his life, he must first save the more than 200,000 innocent people who are still struggling in the refugee camp. The list of refugees in Rabe’s family, with signatures and fingerprints

Rabe’s home in Nanjing housed more than 600 Chinese refugees, and he supported them with his own money. His behavior was selfless and great, and he was affectionately called the "Living Bodhisattva". ? During the bloody and terrifying days from the end of 1937 to the beginning of 1938, Rabe rushed day and night to rescue Chinese refugees. He tried his best and fainted from exhaustion twice. Some of his deeds were not recorded in the diary. For example, he risked his life with his assistants and ran through the streets of Nanjing, using a camera to take a large number of photos of the Japanese massacre. He also collected a large number of blood evidence of the massacre, and in December 1937 On the 26th, these important information were handed over to Sorge, an intelligence analyst at the German Embassy in Japan. He hoped that through his connections, these documents could be handed over to senior German government officials and the Japanese government and opposition parties in order to gain attention. For this to stop this cruel atrocity. Although his purpose was not achieved, and both the German and Japanese governments were dismissive of it, Sorge, a former Soviet secret agent, still made several copies of these materials and handed them to Germany's supreme wartime commander. institutions, and the Soviet socialist government were preserved. He saved 250,000 lives in China.