In 1950, a faltering old man walked on a German street. The old man walked slowly and slowly, and suddenly fell to the ground. Well-wishers passing by took the old man to the hospital, but the old man who had suffered a stroke never woke up.
This old man was Johann Rabe, a German who was called a living bodhisattva by the people of Nanjing, who saved more than 200,000 people.
Johann Rabe was originally the general manager of Siemens' China division sent to Nanjing by Siemens in Germany. Because of the tight war in China, Germany, as an ally of Japan at the time, decided to withdraw Raabe and close the Chinese branch.
The night before Rabe was about to leave, a bomb was dropped on the city of Japanese aircraft stationed outside Nanjing, killing and injuring countless innocent people. Raabe used his status as a German Nazi Party to put in more than 600 people living nearby and more than 600 factory workers. The oversized Nazi party flag where everyone gathered escaped the disaster.
The next day, more than twenty international friends who witnessed the atrocities committed by the Japanese decided to set aside a safe zone to accommodate the innocent people of Nanjing and save the people. Because of Rabe's special status, they unanimously elected Rabe as the chairman of the security zone, which was convenient for negotiating with the Japanese at a special time.
But Rabe received orders to retreat and prepared to return home. He politely declined everyone's election. On the way back to the factory, he witnessed the devastation of the city of Nanjing under the Japanese bombardment, and the bodies of bombed missing arms and legs could be seen everywhere. Parents were blown up, and no one cared about it, the children who cried loudly on the side of the road. This is hell on earth, the lovely city where she has lived for so long has been blown up beyond recognition, and the Japanese should go to hell, Rabe thought bitterly.
Rabe, who had walked home, decided to stay and serve as chairman and work with everyone to protect the people here from being slaughtered by the Japanese.
His wife could not persuade Rabe, so she had to separate from Rabe and return to Shanghai alone to wait for him.
Rabe sent his wife to the last ship to leave Nanjing, but he did not expect that the Japanese air raids would sink the ship, and his wife's life and death were uncertain. Rabe was devastated and desperately wanted to find the Japanese at this time. Fortunately, soon the news came that Rabe's wife was not dead and was rescued. According to the original plan, he returned to Shanghai to wait for him.
More than two dozen foreigners, including Rabe, have designated the 3.86 square kilometers around the church centers such as the U.S. Embassy in China and the Jinling Women's University College of Arts and Sciences, Jinling Theological College, Jinling Middle School, Drum Tower Hospital, and other church centers as safe zones.
On December 8, 1937, Chiang Kai-shek and his wife Soong Mei-ling flew away from Nanjing by special plane after issuing a declaration on moving the capital to Chongqing. The security zone is officially operational.
The safe zone, which can accommodate 23,000 people, has accommodated 100,000 people, and finally at the insistence of Rabe, more than 200,000 people have entered the safe zone. Food has become the most intractable issue in the zone.
"On December 13, 1937, the Japanese army had not yet entered the city, and now was the best time to send food into the safe zone. The vast amount of water and food collected by the Safety Council is being continuously transported into the safe zone." Rabe wrote in his diary.
"The children are dead, and I can't save them." No morphine, no anti-inflammatory drugs, no anesthetics, what do I take to save people, "The committee members who were meeting in the hall of Jinling Women's College in the safety zone were interrupted by a sudden voice. It was the vice chairman of the committee, Dr. Wilson, who spoke.
Dr. Wilson's white coat had been stained red with blood, and his face was covered with dried or undried blood, like a butcher from hell.
"They bombed indiscriminately in the city, and the people were killed and injured countless times. The two dozen or so children who had just been sent were students at a nearby civilian school. They had their arms and legs blown off, their faces half blown off, and some of them died before they could be delivered. Some were still struggling, with a hole in their chest and dying. Gentlemen and ladies, don't believe that anything can be mediated by the Japanese Embassy, they are all snakes and rats, killing people without blinking an eye. We can't hope to get medicines from them. ”
The hall fell silent, and everyone fell silent. Yes, the war machine that creates war only cares about the maximization of its own interests, how can it care about the lives and deaths of those who have been occupied.
On December 13, 1937, the Japanese entered the city, and the city of Nanjing was shrouded in hell, and the slaughter of the city by the Japanese made the whole city of Nanjing mourn. They ordered that there should be no soldiers in the security zone and no weapons in possession. All the soldiers had to lay down their arms and be taken away by the Japanese soldiers.
For the sake of the 200,000 people in the safe zone, Wei Telin, the principal of Jinling Women's College, had to hand over more than a hundred Chinese soldiers who had laid down their weapons.
Weitlin asked the receiving Japanese officer to sign, and after the fierce-looking Japanese officer finished signing, he actually asked Weitlin to hand over 20 female students to them. This made Wittrin tremble with rage, pointing at the Japanese and shouting, "Who do you think I am, am I an old duck?" I'm all schoolgirls here, you're going to get me out right now," the Japanese said, staring fiercely at Wittlin, "you'll regret it." With that, he turned and went out.
Weitlin was afraid that the Japanese would do something unfavorable to the school and wanted to go out with her. Before I could get out the door, I heard a gunshot outside. Witterine was stunned and ran out. The playground was full of corpses of Chinese soldiers, and the Japanese officers did not take away the Chinese soldiers at all, but killed them on the spot.
Witterine looked at the Japanese who had fled away, covered her mouth, and secretly wept. These Chinese soldiers who laid down their arms also disarmed for the safety of the people in the safe zone. But I didn't expect that the Japanese treated prisoners with killing. Weitlin decided to hide all the remaining Chinese soldiers and not give them to the Japanese again. One day the Japanese are there, the slaughter will not end.
On this day, a Chinese soldier was brought in from the hospital under Dr. Wilson's charge, and Dr. Wilson shouted, "Soldiers are not allowed to come in, all go out, do you want to kill the people?" The doctor who had brought in looked at Dr. Wilson with pleading eyes and pleaded, "Please let me save him, he is my son." I can't watch him die. Wilson softened, and he waved his hand to get the doctor to carry him into the wounded soldier.
After a while, the Japanese broke in. Wilson stopped them and said, "This is a safe zone, you can't come in, and the Japanese rudely pushed Dr. Wilson away and said, "I saw a Chinese soldier coming in, and we want to search." "There are no Chinese soldiers here, you go out," cried Dr. Wilson. The Japanese put their guns on Wilson's head and said, "You give me way, or I'll kill you." ”
Unable to stop the Japanese soldier who had broken in, the Chinese soldier was still searched. As a burst of gunfire rang out, the two doctors who were operating on, three nurses and the wounded Chinese soldier were all killed.
The Japanese said viciously to Dr. Wilson, "Isn't this a Chinese soldier?" With that, he pushed Dr. Wilson away and walked away.
Dr. Wilson, distraught, ran to Rabe to borrow wine to dispel his sorrows, and drank drunkenly. I woke up the next day with a headache that I couldn't do it. But the bigger headache is not this, but the lack of food in the safe zone. This was a safe zone that was originally planned to accommodate 23,000 people, and It was forced to let Labésé lay down 200,000 people.
For a total of 200,000 people, the grain can only last for three days at most. What to do after three days, everyone is at a loss. While the food was about to be cut off, the food collected by the International Committee arrived. Everyone cheered, but what they did not expect was that the Japanese would not let food into the safe zone and would levy a high tax.
There was no way out, and Rabe, Dr. Wilson, and Dr. Rosen went to the Japanese embassy and begged the Japanese to let them go. While they were negotiating inside, Rabe's driver was forcibly taken away by the Japanese. Rabe came out unable to find the driver, and finally witnessed the driver being cut off by a Japanese officer in a clearing.
What Rabe saw was the notorious Japanese officer killing contest in history, in which two Japanese brutally killed more than two hundred innocent Chinese civilians in order to kill faster than anyone else. This incident has become a glorious capital in the hearts of this group of inhuman Japanese people, and it has appeared in the Asahi Shimbun. The two murderous maniacs became the heroes of the fanatical Japanese at that time.
Raabe protested against the atrocities committed by the Japanese, and the Japanese officer said lightly: "Chinese some, you pick twenty from here and take them away, which is my compensation for you." ”
Rabe was frustrated that his driver had been killed for no reason, but he couldn't do anything. Wilson reassured him that there was much you could do, and the two hundred thousand people in the safe zone were not all saved by you?
"Yes, there are two hundred thousand people, we hurry back, the Japanese promised us to transport the grain back to the safe zone, and we will seize the time to transport the grain back before they change their minds."
On December 23, 1937, the money raised by the International Committee was almost exhausted, and the safe zone did not know how long it would last. Rabe decided to donate all his possessions to buy food for the people in the safe zone. But he himself passed out in the office because he ran out of insulin.
There was no more insulin at the hospital, and Wilson and Rosen risked their lives to run to the Japanese embassy to beg the ambassador. The Japanese ambassador was also afraid that the Germans would have an accident and affect the cooperation of the Allies. He gave the insulin to the doctor.
Rosen was waiting for the doctor in the car outside when suddenly a Japanese officer knocked on the window. He secretly told Lawson that the Japanese had learned of the Chinese soldiers hiding in the security zone. Under this pretext, they want to close the security zone before ambassadors and the international media arrive. The international media should not be allowed to know that there is still a safe zone in Nanjing.
This kind Japanese officer, Rai Shosa, was also the only officer to oppose the massacre of Chinese soldiers who had disarmed.
On December 25, 1937, hundreds of civilians stopped at the gate of the safe zone and swore to defend it, and the Japanese fired several times to expel them, and not a single civilian left. The angry Japanese prepared to use heavy tanks to crush the people and push the gate open. At a critical moment, Rabe and the others opened the gate and stood arm in arm in front of the people. Block the Japanese tanks with flesh and blood. Because of their status as international friends, the Japanese did not dare to act rashly, so they did so.
In the end, Raabe was victorious, and the ships of ambassadors and international media arrived. The Japanese were furious, but there was nothing they could do. I had to retreat in a gray and slippery way.
In the presence of the media and ambassadors of various countries, the Japanese did not wait to recognize the existence of the safe zone, and the safe zone was finally truly secure. Rabe also retired and was recalled to the country to report for duty.
Before leaving, the people spontaneously organized a farewell to Rabe and praised Rabe as a living bodhisattva in China.
The film "Rabe's Diary", which was changed according to "Rabe's Diary", truly reproduces the atrocities of the Japanese in the Nanjing Massacre.
During the Nanjing Massacre, more than 200,000 lives were saved under the protection of the safe zone. Still, the number of victims shocked the world. The burial of the unnamed body continued for weeks. According to the survey, more than 300,000 Chinese were mutilated by the Japanese.
Until now, there are still some Japanese leftists who do not recognize the atrocities committed by the Japanese in Nanjing. Attempts to cover up the brutality of the glorified Japanese people from history and not to forget the national shame are things that every Chinese should remember. With the growing strength of the motherland, Chinese people can stand tall in the east of the world. Those who commit crimes against china will be condemned from afar.