True courage is to stand up when disaster strikes, not moral kidnapping in peaceful and peaceful years.
Those who choose to flee in the face of disaster are not cowards, but those who choose to stay and help others must be the most courageous.
There were such a group of brave people during World War II: Oscar Schindler, Wilm Osenfeld (the German officer who saved the protagonist in "The Pianist"), Weitling (Hua Qun), He Fengshan, Sugihara Thousand Mu, Raoul Wallenberg, John Magee, Baders, Sindberg, Carl Günter, Master Jingran, Robert Wilson, Lewis Smythe, Han Xianglin... and John Rabe.
Thanks to the efforts of Zhang Chunru and Dr. Shao Ziping, the diary of the "Nanjing Schindler" was revived.
Rabe was a member of the Nazi Party, but just as a sharp knife can be used to kill people in the hands of robbers and to save people in the hands of doctors, during the Nanjing Incident, Rabe has been using his Nazi party membership to deal with the Japanese army, and Together, Waitlin and others protected the refugee camp and the Chinese in his own family as much as possible.
Rabe faced the 50,000 well-armed Japanese army with his bare hands. The only things he could slow down the Japanese army's evil deeds were his membership in the Nazi party and the diplomatic issue that Germany was an ally of Japan. Japanese soldiers often went to the refugee camps to arrest people as comfort women while Rabe was not paying attention.
When protecting Chinese refugees in Nanjing, he often only slept for less than four hours, and passed out twice due to overwork. He donated his property to rescue the refugees, which also delayed his diabetes treatment. All kinds of injustices by the Nazis and the Allies, his condition is getting worse and worse, all of which lead him to the final bleak end...
I don't know what words to use to commemorate Rabe, but I think maybe "good people" is the most appropriate word.
Mr. Rabe is not a "savior", he is a good man - a word far more noble than the former.
After the release of "Nanjing Nanjing" ten years ago, I saw Lu Chuan being interviewed on the Shanghai Dragon TV program "Rabe's Nanjing" and said this:
"I don't believe Rabe saved 200,000 Chinese people. If he can save the 200,000 people, he will surely save the 300,000 people who were killed. If he didn't save them, it means he couldn't do it. I Thinking that the Japanese had killed enough and didn’t want to kill any more, that’s why the 200,000 people in the Rabe refugee camp were allowed to survive.”
Lu Chuan's words made me very disgusted. Later, I went to inquire about Lu Chuan's opinion on Rabe and others, and found that he repeatedly made various yin and yang comments to Rabe and others not only once or in one place.
Some of Lu Chuan's views are negotiable, while others are extremely thin. Here are some of his comments -
Lu Chuan: "On such a core matter, only the Germans entered the public memory, and the Germans saved the Chinese. In the end, only one German saved 200,000 Chinese in our children's memory, and that's it. A good man and a good deed. Does this work for us? Do we have to find a savior next time something goes wrong?"
●Lu Chuan: "If we only remember that the Germans saved 200,000 people in this matter, it would be unfair to those who died."
(The problem is not "only remember", but "don't remember". As grandma Li Shizhen, a survivor of the Nanjing Massacre, said, in the face of Rabe and others who bravely stood up in troubled times, "we didn't do anything for him. Order something." And Jews thanked Schindler, He Fengshan and others, and even filmed a "Schindler's List" in memory of Schindler. Does this mean that they forget and deny the Holocaust? Gratitude means that Forgetting history? Gratitude, is there a conflict with remembering history? Why does Lu Chuan regard the two as contradictory? I can't understand it at all. I can still understand Lu Chuan's literal meaning. It's not the whole of a case, because there are perpetrators and victims, etc. In the face of criminals, we can't blindly expect passers-by to help, but can we ignore those who have the courage to help? If Lu Chuan was robbed or murdered If someone comes to the rescue, will he advocate not to thank those who are righteous and brave?)
●Lu Chuan: "And, in February of the second year, didn't Rabe also leave?"
(The Nanjing Massacre is also known as the "Six Bloody Weeks". In February 1938, Rabe, who had survived the most painful "Six Bloody Weeks" with Chinese refugees, was forced to hand over the refugee area to a new responsibility under political pressure. After returning to Germany, he did not forget to criticize the evil deeds of the Japanese army. I don't understand what is so strange about the so-called "February of the second year", he said It's as if Rabe did nothing or left halfway, or even ignored his good deeds. Not to mention, Lu Chuan did say that Rabe "left halfway", see the next article.)
Lu Chuan: "As a Chinese director, I feel that the 'Nanjing Massacre' is ultimately a matter of China and Japan. Although Rabe had a share, he left halfway; and the Chinese nation has been ups and downs over the years. Aliens rescued us?"
(I think the key word of this question is "saving people", not "foreigners". To thank Rabe for his righteous deeds is just a grateful heart that a human being should have, just like the Jews thanking Schindler, He Fengshan and others for their It's the same act of righteousness, not the so-called "which foreigners saved us". If the Jews say "the concentration camp is only a matter of Germans and Jews, and Fengshan Ho is a Chinese nationality, so there is no need to thank the Chinese", is this okay? Lu Chuan attempted Taking the nationality of the person who does good deeds to talk about things, in order to downplay or even obliterate the fact that the other person has done good deeds, this kind of behavior is called "ungrateful" in Chinese. As for "but halfway through" in Lu Chuan's words, see my previous rebuttal.)
Lu Chuan: "In "Rabe's Diary", there is a story about the Japanese coming to find a prostitute. Rabe wrote a sentence lightly. When I was reading it, I suddenly realized that people have a position. If you help us, he is also German. , he will not stand in the position of our compatriots and brothers and sisters and say let them go. If they are all Chinese, maybe his narrative is not like this."
(I really don't understand what is there to criticize about this, why do people who do good must be required to be perfect? Besides, from the moment Nanjing was bombed by Japanese planes, Rabe had already rushed out of the house and put those people on the street. Isn't it virtuous enough to drag Chinese refugees who "have nothing to do with themselves" to their own homes for protection? Lu Chuan sneered at the client just because one or two sentences in Rabe's diary did not express the heart of the Virgin Mary. Is it too mean and out of context? And in fact, not all of Rabe's diary is what Lu Chuan accused. I hope that Lu Chuan will not be "lenient to himself" while being "stricter than others".)
Lu Chuan: "If there was a Japanese who helped the Chinese at that time, it would be more similar to Schindler, and its meaning would be closer to Schindler, but Rabe was a German and a third party."
(I am too lazy to refute this. Those who agree with this sentence, if they are not sick, they are sick, or they are sick. Of course, there is another possibility, that is, they are sick.)
Lu Chuan: "If you watch Rabe's Diary, you will notice that during Chinese New Year and festivals, they also light candles and eat roast chicken. Waitlin's diary also writes that there are eggs and quilts in their kitchen. The Japanese go and steal."
Lu Chuan: "Schindler is the opposite of the Jews to save them, but Rabe is not. He is a Nazi, a third party in China, not a party. Look carefully at his diary. He also eats roast chicken during the holidays. He and Schindler can't compare."
(Tell me, what did that roast chicken do wrong?! Why does Lu Chuan have to get along with that roast chicken again and again?! Who can tell me what happened to that roast chicken?! Why did Rabe and Waitlin Eating only roast chicken during Chinese New Year and festivals has become a big sin...? Besides, why use a good person to deny a good person? I can't understand Lu Chuan's three views. Then, Lu Chuan emphasized that Rabe is a Nazi, so "he Xin There's no comparison to Deler, but in fact Schindler was also a Nazi, and he not only had roast chicken, but also had fun all day long. I've never seen a Jew kill Schindler because of his Nazi identity. The merits of the Jews. Indeed, there are people who insist on Rabe's Nazi identity. This is the Japanese lawyer who defended the right wing in the trial of the comfort women incident in Japan. I don't understand why Lu Chuan repeatedly emphasized that only the perpetrator and the victim are related. Only people are qualified to come out and act bravely, but passers-by are not qualified. Could it be that when Lu Chuan was robbed by several robbers, he would not accept any third-party assistance, but only waited for someone in the gang of robbers to find out?)
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The last few points are also presented in "Nanjing Nanjing". Under Lu Chuan's lens, it is not Rabe of the "third country" who represents the human conscience, but the protagonist of the film, Kadokawa from the "Japanese Army". Lu Chuan stubbornly believed that only a person with an unblemished conscience could be called "Schindler", but not a third party.
Of course, there are indeed Japanese people in history who still insisted on being kind during the war, such as Fumio Kamei and Keisuke Kinoshita, both of whom were banned from the film industry because they made movies that the military did not like. Not knowing that Japan would be defeated in a few years, it can be said that he was punished with the feeling that he would not be able to display his talents for the rest of his life. During the war, the two directors expressed even a little doubt, and the courage they paid was far greater than the people who scolded the fascists loudly after the war.
I can't understand why Lu Chuan is so harsh on a good person, but Lu Chuan said to the Japanese actor at the same time: "Don't act like a bad person, I will tell you now that your ancestors (that is, Nanjing University) The Makers of Carnage) is a well-trained, dignified, religious, and iron-blooded killing machine."
I only criticize Lu Chuan's bizarre double-standard behavior here. I don't mean to target Japanese actors. They can come to China to participate in the performance of World War II films, which means that they are trying to accept the Chinese perspective on history. The behavior itself is worthy of recognition. I am also not against the objective description of the Japanese army. I have always felt that The Destruction of the Empire is outstanding because it restores Hitler to an ordinary person, which makes the audience fall into thinking after watching it.
There is another nonsense in Lu Chuan's "Nanjing Nanjing", that is, Rabe's Chinese secretary. In "Nannan", he once became a traitor and finally died. In history, the secretary was called Han Xianglin and lived until the 1980s. He was responsible for negotiating food issues with the Japanese side, and played an important role in the normal operation of the refugee camp.
Lu Chuan didn't forget to use the character's wife's mouth to satirize Rabe: "You sold your life for Rabe for more than ten years, he left you and ran away." But in fact, as early as when Nanjing was bombed by the Japanese army , Rabe had already arranged for Han Xianglin's family to leave Nanjing, but they couldn't leave in the end for some reason, so they had to hide in Rabe's house. The description of this in Nannan completely reverses black and white.
Han Xianglin's daughter later visited Rabe's former residence.
I remember that there was also a fan of Lu Chuan, "Red Flag". In order to support Lu Chuan, he also sneered and said, "Rabe is a foreigner and will praise Rabe. Either he has been kneeling and licking foreigners for a long time, or he is a foreigner himself. ."
I don't know which country the "foreign country" that the red flag refers to refers to, anyway, the nationality of the group of people mentioned below are all Chinese.
So, as the survivors of the Nanjing Massacre, how do you view Rabe?
Li Xiuying: "At that time, whenever there was trouble, the Chinese would go to Rabe, and he would come right away. Rabe used his special status to negotiate with the Japanese... At that time we had no idea that Rabe was a Nazi party member. Not being a Nazi, it has nothing to do with us. But Rabe was a good man and we will always miss him.…There were very few people who could negotiate with the Japanese at that time. Without Rabe, I don't know how many would have been Would be killed by the Japanese. Rabe saved many, many lives."
Wu Zhengxi: "Rabe is a German with firm determination and high moral character. Some newspapers reported that he was a Nazi party member. Whether he was a Nazi party member or not, he saved many Chinese lives. At that time, he showed His noble character is the most important thing....If he didn't organize everyone, the Japanese would definitely be even more crazy...He stood up bravely, spoke up for the Chinese, and made his own personal contribution to protecting them. contribution.”
Pan Kaiming: "If it weren't for them, many Chinese would have been killed. What Rabe wrote in his diary is what we pretended to say in our hearts. Whether or not Rabe is a Nazi party member, It doesn't change our opinion of him."
Mu Xifu: "Our whole family will always be grateful to Rabe. If it weren't for his protection, our family of 53 would not have survived. They were killed by the Japanese long ago, and their bones are beaten."
Ding Yongqing: "Rabe is a big man and treats people very well. He built a reed shed in the yard for the surrounding residents to live in."
Tang Ying: "Those who have experienced the Holocaust know what hell on earth is. I can survive without Mr. Rabe. It would be absolutely impossible. ... As soon as I go to Nanjing, I will go to Mr. Rabe's courtyard. Go and see, that small courtyard is still there. When I get there, in tears, I always think of many, many past events. I am old now, but I often come here with my children, so that they can remember a benefactor, a person who has A noble human being."
Sun Youming: "Rabe and his family made a large Nazi flag out of sheets in the yard. The Japanese didn't dare to throw bombs when they saw it from the sky."
Wu Kezheng: "Everyone doesn't speak German, and they all call him 'horn' with my father." Many people still remember that 'horn' wore that armband and often walked on the street, pointing to the swastika and shouting 'Hi! Hitler! ', to stop the Japanese from insulting Chinese women".
Wang Fengying: "In the refugee area established by Rabe, the five of us took refuge in this refugee area. The five of us would not have died. Otherwise, we would not have survived in that place (Zhujiang Road)."
Rui Tihe: "I am a witness to the Holocaust. ... Mr. Rabe is dead and immortal."
Li Jun: "I was only 13 years old at the time, and I hid in the yard of Mr. Rabe's house with my family. In order to protect us, a lot of shacks were built in the yard for the refugees to live in... At that time, the refugees all said that Rabe was a 'Living Buddha'."
Li Shizhen: "There was a family of 37 people who were caught by the Japanese soldiers. They were all tied up and kneeling on the ground. When (the Japanese soldiers) were about to beheaded, Rabe happened to pass by, so he negotiated with the Japanese soldiers, and finally put this 37 people were taken away. Later, everyone in the family said that if there was no Rabe, their entire family would perish. In fact, we are all the same. If there was no Rabe, I am afraid I would have been buried in the ground for decades. "
(Note: Grandma Li Shizhen played a refugee in the German film "Rabe Diary", she said: "The first time I acted in a movie, I actually hoped to repay Rabe. He saved so many of us lives, but we didn't. Can do something for him.")
Xia Shuqin: "We are all grateful to Mr. Rabe."
(Note: On February 5, 2009, Xia Shuqin sued the Japanese right-wing right-wing right-of-reputation case and won the final trial in Japan. She is also a survivor of the name mentioned in Rabe's diary.)
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Rabe has helped not only hundreds of thousands of people in the refugee area, but also 600 Chinese refugees hiding in his own home. Rabe protects them in his own name.
According to survivors Ding Yongqing and others, something like this happened in Rabe's family at that time——
On the night of December 19 of that year, two Japanese soldiers crossed the wall at Rabe's residence, trying to do evil. After being found out by Rabe, he scolded him harshly. After the Japanese soldiers saw that he was German, they had to put away their guns angrily and asked Rabe to open the door and let them out. Rabe blocked the gate with his body, and categorically refused: "No! You can get out from wherever you come in!" The two Japanese soldiers had to climb over the wall to get out. Seeing this scene, the refugees in the hospital couldn't help clapping their hands and cheering.
Even if Rabe's contribution in the refugee area is completely ignored, the number of people he rescued in his own home is equivalent to half Schindler, but in Lu Chuan's description and "Nanjing Nanjing", this kind deed is obliterated. Clean and tidy.
The "perfect victim" trend prevails on the Internet, and in the eyes of Lu Chuan and others, a good person must be perfect. If a good person does not meet the standard of absolute perfection, even if he/she does good deeds, it will be discounted.
But in my opinion, the Nazis are Johann Rabe, Oskar Schindler, Wilm Olsenfeld, American Weitling, Chinese He Fengshan, Japanese Sugihara Qianmu, Swedes Laura Or Ul Wallenberg...or maybe Paul Luce Sebergina, the protagonist of Hotel Rwanda, and others...
No matter what country they are from, what identity they are, or what mentality they have to save people, as long as they dare to lend a helping hand to others in times of crisis, they are good people with courage.
Looking at it, Lu Chuan and his brain-dead fans have said all kinds of sarcastic things to Rabe, and all those who really faced the death threat of the Japanese army in those days had a grateful heart for Rabe.
Some people are concerned about whether Rabe is anti-Semitic. I think this is not an important issue. When anti-Semitic activities broke out in Nazi Germany, Rabe was mainly active in China. What matters is what Rabe did, not whether he was German or Nazi.
And there are two counter-examples that can show that Rabe at least does not strongly dislike Jews. One is that his companion in the Nanjing refugee area, Dr. George Rosen, is Jewish (there is this role in the movie "Rabe's Diary", directed by Daniel Bruch Played), because of his Jewish identity, Rabe expressed sympathy for this in his diary; first, after returning to Germany, Rabe bought a Jewish house with money and indirectly provided them with the opportunity to flee abroad. funds.
Rabe's later years were bleak, and he was not rewarded for his good deeds in Nanjing.
First, after returning to Germany, he was arrested by the Nazi Gestapo for promoting the Nanjing incident, which was considered to have destroyed the German-Japanese relationship. After the war, he was arrested by the United Kingdom and the Soviet Union for being a member of the Nazi party. Under such circumstances, Rabe said something very sad: In Nanjing, people called me a "living Buddha", but here I am just a pariah.
In 1948, Berlin encountered the crisis of the Cold War, and the life of Rabe's family fell to the bottom. At this time, the citizens of Nanjing raised 2,000 US dollars to remit money to Germany to help Rabe to tide over the difficulties. Nanjing people did not forget him.
Rabe died of illness on January 5, 1950.
Looking back on Rabe's rough life, it can be said that in the last ten years, he endured multiple physical, mental, and life tortures, and after his death, he had to endure the harsh words of Lu Chuan and others.
Equally unfortunate, there was Waitlin, who wrote on the last page of her diary: "I'm almost exhausted." On May 14, 1941, Waitlin chose to commit suicide. Whenever I see this ending, my eyes are always full of tears.
In stark contrast, the mastermind of the Nanjing incident, King Asaka Miyako, was exempted due to MacArthur's decision and ultimately did not prosecute him. A series of evil deeds in the Nanjing incident led by him were all pushed to the head of Matsui Ishigen.
Asaka Hatohiko is fond of golf and also serves as the honorary president of the golf club. He lived happily and healthily until his death on April 12, 1981, at the age of 93. Lived decades longer than Rabe and Waitlin.
Asaka Hatohiko is not the only Japanese officer who has been released. Countless officers including Shiro Ishii from Unit 731 have also been pardoned. Even Hideki Tojo and others who were sentenced to heavy sentences were also allowed to enter the Yasukuni Shrine by MacArthur. . The atomic bomb punished unarmed civilians, not the bureaucrats who waged war from above.
Good people get no reward, bad people get a good death.
(PS: Rabe's grandson gave Kagawa Teruyuki the Peace Prize in April 2009 for his role in the movie "Rabe's Diary" as Prince Hatohiko Asaka.)
In 1997, Rabe's tombstone was moved to Nanjing for preservation, and returned to the people he protected back then.
Rabe is not a "savior", he is a good man.
[references]
Shanghai Dragon TV TV program "Rabe's Nanjing"
"Lu Chuan Responds to Questions"
Die Zeit April 20, 2009
"Sanlian Life Weekly" No. 11, 2009
"Southern Metropolis Daily"
Huang Huiying's "The Biography of Rabe"
Zhang Chunru "The Forgotten Holocaust"
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