Rabe Diary

Alisha 2022-04-22 07:01:50

The whole film does focus on Rabe's life rather than the Nanjing Massacre. Many scenes in it are handled too plainly, so the background of the film seems pale and weak, but the portrayal of Rabe is still very perfect. About Nanjing The massacre, I know about mass graves and the beheading of a hundred people, but I never knew about Rabe, a German who saved 200,000 Chinese by using his Siemens general manager and the identity of the Nazi Party. I feel that the filming is average, there is nothing too shocking, and the intensity is not enough. The focus of the film is on Rabe.

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John Rabe quotes

  • Colonel Nakajima Kesago: He disobeyed the rules by not staying in the car.

    John Rabe: He didn't stay in the car? His head was cut off!

    Colonel Nakajima Kesago: It was an honorable death. A contest between two officers. Very popular in Japan.

    John Rabe: What contest?

    Colonel Nakajima Kesago: Who decapitates the most enemies.

  • John Rabe: To the Führer of the German people. Chancellor Adolf Hitler. My Führer. As a loyal party member and upstanding German. I turn to you in a time of great need. The Japanese Imperial troops conquered the city of Nanking on December 12, 1937. Since then I have witnessed atrocious crimes against civilians. Please help to end this catastrophe and make an appeal to our Japanese allies in the name of humanity. With a German salute.

    [Rabe signs the letter]