During the epidemic period, a German citizen sought vaccines from China in his personal name, and in the case of a shortage of drugs in china, he gave priority to providing him, including 30,000 masks, hundreds of sets of drugs and protective clothing, and sent a special plane to Germany to personally hand it over to him. It's all because his grandfather was John Rabe, a name you may not have heard, but it was this man who risked his life to save the lives of 250,000 Chinese in the Nanjing Massacre in 1937.
In 1937, Johann Rabe was appointed head of the German Siemens in Nanjing. Without warning, multiple planes hovered over Nanjing and frantically dropped bombs, and the whole city instantly turned into a sea of fire. Rabe was in a meeting, the sudden explosion made people panic, he and his wife wanted to go back to the factory to take refuge, but found that the factory gate was crowded with fleeing Chinese, he ordered the security guard to open the door, but as soon as he entered, the security guard closed the door again. Rabe looked at the poor Chinese and ordered the security guards to open the door, and people came in to take refuge, watching the scene become more and more dangerous. Witty to take out the German flag, stretch out the four corners, and then use the searchlight to light up, let the Chinese hide under the flag, people rushed in. Sure enough, the bomber saw the huge swastika flag and flew away, no longer bombing, and people were temporarily safe.
But soon, the Japanese army completely occupied the city of Nanjing, and the city was in a mess, and the people were not happy. Rabe was anxious to save the people here, and suddenly they thought that they could establish an international safety zone in the name of the Germans, which the Japanese could never invade, so that the suffering people could be included.
Unfortunately, tomorrow is the time for Rabe to leave Siemens, and he intends to take the last cruise ship back to Germany on the dock. The next day he and his wife came to the docks, which were already crowded and everyone wanted to leave nanjing. But unexpectedly, after letting his wife get on the boat, he did not go up for a long time. Yes, he decided to stay, and he didn't know that such a decision would save the lives of hundreds of thousands of Chinese. Before he could leave the docks, Japanese planes bombed the masses at the docks, even destroying the tankers that had already left. Watching this scene, Rabe was in extreme pain, because his wife was still on the ship, and he still had to endure the pain of losing his wife and build a safe zone with his companions.
Seeing that the people in the city of Nanjing were displaced, but the security zone could only accommodate 100,000 people, they finally decided to forcibly take in 200,000 people. However, there is a provision in international law that soldiers from both sides of the war are not allowed to enter the safe zone, and they are forced to hand over prisoners of war here. They thought that this would ensure the safety of the prisoners of war, but the next scene completely shocked them, they had just handed over the prisoners of war, only to hear a burst of gunfire, and the Japanese army actually slaughtered all the prisoners of war with machine guns. They do not take international conventions seriously at all and have lost their basic morality and humanity.
Watching the Chinese slaughtered one by one, Rabe decided to rescue more Chinese. However, the daily food demand of 200,000 refugees is quite large, and the grain that Rabe tried his best to get was stopped by the Japanese army, and they actually demanded huge tariffs from them, a bag of rice for ten thousand yuan, what is the difference between this and robbing money? They simply couldn't come up with so much money, and the only way to do that was to negotiate with the Japanese officers. At the negotiating table, the Japanese officers had no regard for them and downplayed the killing of prisoners of war. Thanks to Rabe's efforts, he finally won the exemption from tariffs.
After the conversation, Rabe went out to find that one of his Chinese drivers was missing, and it turned out that just now, the Japanese soldiers demanded that the driver must stay in the car, and the driver was dragged to the execution ground because he could not understand his words. When Rabe found him, he saw that the Japanese officers were cutting off the heads of Chinese one by one, which was the infamous beheading competition of Japanese officers. It was the infamous beheading contest of the Nanjing Massacre, in which two Japanese officers kept cutting off the heads of Chinese, and the one with the larger number of cuts down won within the stipulated time. They were also printed in newspapers and hyped up as an honor, which was simply inhumane.
Rabe shocked his driver when he saw this, and because he could not understand the Words of the Japanese soldiers, he was pulled to behead him. He decided to ask for an explanation, but the Japanese officer did not have the slightest remorse. Fortunately, he allowed Rabe to choose a German-speaking man from the POW camp to be his driver. When Rabe saw these prisoners of war and understood that they could not speak German, he offered to take twenty prisoners of war as compensation if he could not find anyone who could speak German, and he wanted to save more people. The Japanese officer agreed. When asked if anyone spoke German, a young man raised his hand. The Japanese officer asked him to speak a few words of German, which was true or false, but the young man was so slurred that he did not seem to be able to. Bella wanted to take him away, so she guided him, even if he said a few words that he didn't understand, but even then he didn't open his mouth, no one knew that the young man was actually saving people, because he realized that if he didn't speak, more people would be rescued. In times of crisis, this spirit of caring for one's fellow citizens is admirable. So Rabe began to pick people, which was his most troubled and heartache time, because he did not want to give up any Chinese. He saw an older young man ask him if he had children, and the youth nodded, so he chose him. He selected young people as if they had been dragged out of the hands of death. But after being elected, Rabe saw a row of decapitated heads in their back glasses, and he knew that those who were not selected would suffer the same fate. He lay in bed in pain, hating himself for being powerless.