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Loading... The Good Man of Nanking: The Diaries of John Rabe (1997)by John Rabe
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. Quite good. Read Rape of Nanking first to put this narrative in perspective. ( ) He is called the "Oscar Schindler" of Nanking. He joined the Nazi Party while working for Siemens in China. He really believed Hitler wasthe hope of Germany and seems to have been completely ignorant of Nazi atrocities while in China. He sent letters to Hitler asking him to help the Chinese people. He saved over 250,000 people during the Japanese invasion.
This plainspoken diary of a remarkable German businessman makes vivid the horrors of The Japanese Conquest of Nanking. It Documents The Looting, Raping, and Killing of Civilians In What Became Known As The Rape of Nanking.
A unique and gripping document: the recently discovered diaries of a German businessman, John Rabe, who saved so many lives in the infamous siege of Nanking in 1937 that he is now honored as the Oskar Schindler of China. As the Japanese army closed in on the city and all foreigners were ordered to evacuate, Rabe felt it would shame him before his Chinese workers and dishonor the Fatherland if he abandoned them. Sending his wife to the north, he mobilized the remaining Westerners in Nanking and organized an "International Safety Zone" within which all unarmed Chinese were to be--by virtue of Germany's pact with Japan--guaranteed safety. As hundreds of thousands of Chinese streamed into the city, the Japanese army began torturing, raping, and massacring them in untold numbers. All that stood between the Chinese and certain slaughter was Rabe and his committee, and it is thought that he saved more than 250,000 lives. When the siege lifted in 1938 and Rabe finally felt able to leave, the Chinese gave him a banner that called him their Living Buddha, or Saint. Back home in Germany, he wrote Adolf Hitler to describe the Japanese atrocities he had witnessed. Two days later, the Gestapo arrested him. Miraculously, he was not sent to the camps. As it turned out, Rabe survived the war and the starvation that followed because the Chinese government learned that he was alive, and Madame Chiang Kai-shek had food parcels sent to him. This book is the journal he kept each night during those months of horror and the difficult years that followed. It is the record of an unpretentious hero who, when faced with the inhuman, refused to yield his ground. No library descriptions found. |
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Google Books — Loading... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)951.042History and Geography Asia China and region History 1912-1949 1927-1949LC ClassificationRatingAverage:
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