In 1937, German businessman Rabe and his wife Dora lived in Nanjing, the capital of China at the time. He was the head of the Siemens branch and a Nazi who loved his work in Nanjing. It was difficult for him to hand over the division he had worked so hard for to the company's appointed heir, Werner Fries. Rabe loves China and also loves his job in China. When he knew that the Nanjing branch was about to be closed, it was difficult for him to accept it. At his farewell ball, the Japanese bombed the city of Nanjing, and subsequently captured Shanghai. Due to the sudden panic, Rabe resolutely opened the door of the company to provide refuge for his Chinese employees and their families, and tactfully placed a huge Nazi flag on the open space of the factory to save the factory from being bombed by Japanese planes. Early the next morning, when the war went out and the losses were being counted, the foreigners in Nanjing City began to discuss what they should do at such a dangerous time. German-Jewish diplomats told them that Shanghai had a safe zone for the common people. The teachers at Jinling Girls' School immediately thought the idea was a good one and nominated Rabe as chairman. As a German, he could more or less be seen as an "ally" of the Japanese. Her suggestion angered Wilson, a physician at the local hospital, who hated "Nazis." In fact, Rabe had intended to leave Nanking and return to Germany the next day; but at this moment he decided to stay and got down to work immediately. When the Japanese imperialist army brutally vented and carried out atrocities on the Chinese people, Rabe and his companions fought with the Japanese army wisely and bravely, and struggled to provide security for the common people in Nanjing. Hundreds of thousands of civilians poured into the safe zone - a lot more than expected. However, the Japanese army is still slaughtering and maiming the Chinese people, and the supply of the safe zone is getting more and more difficult. Even the insulin that Rabe relies on for a living is unsustainable. Rabe's diary records the Nanjing Massacre of Japanese killings of Chinese people, which is a testimony to the numerous crimes of Japanese fascists. And Rabe's actions are all the light of goodness in human nature.
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