During the fall of Nanking, a German woman was in charge of a girls' school, but Rabe soon discovered that the school's recent demand for food had been particularly large. The woman quietly brought Rabe to the school and opened the door of the attic, which was full of wounded Chinese soldiers, who turned out to be secretly protecting them. Rabe knew that if the Japanese were to know about it, the entire safe zone would be threatened, but he could only keep one eye open and one eye closed, not knowing that it would threaten everyone's lives.
People in the safe zone are temporarily safe, but people outside the zone have no food, do not dare to go out, and can only wait at home to die. One night a schoolgirl sneaked out of the school, which was tantamount to death. It turned out that she had been given food by her father and brother, but on the way there she was targeted by two Japanese soldiers. She had just delivered food to her brother when she suddenly broke in with two Japanese soldiers and shot her father on the spot. The boy hid under the bed and did not dare to make a sound, but the Japanese soldiers found his sister, and they put down their guns, grabbed the girl, and forced her on the table. Just when the Japanese soldiers were about to succeed, the boy saw the gun on the table, the gun sounded, the girl finally escaped the disaster, in order to avoid eyeliner, she put on the clothes of the Japanese soldier and buried her father with her brother, she was ready to take his brother back to school.
But a Japanese car suddenly stopped in front of the school, and in order to maintain their image, they used the bodies of prisoners of war to fill the crater. At this time, the girl arrived with her brother just in time, the Japanese soldiers of course found out, they thought the girl was a Chinese male soldier, the girl let her brother quickly hide, ran into the school by herself, the Japanese soldiers also chased in, could not stop, the teachers still tried their best to block, the girl took the opportunity to run into the girls' dormitory, and then took off her coat. When the Japanese soldiers arrived, they found that there were no Chinese soldiers, but Japanese troops. They did not give up, but asked the students to take off their shirts for examination. There is no way, the students can only obey in order to save their lives. The Japanese officer saw that the students were indeed women and left. Fortunately, they escaped the disaster, but they were only temporarily safe.
At this time, Nanjing had been completely occupied by the Japanese army, the people were killed and wounded, and the safety zone was the only safe place in Nanjing, but it had already accommodated 250,000 Chinese. Seeing that the supplies were seriously insufficient, the head of the security zone, Rabe, decided to take out all his belongings. At Christmas, he also paid people in particular difficulty, and the safety work was barely maintained, but the news of Chinese soldiers hiding in the school still went away. Tomorrow, journalists from all over the world will arrive in Nanjing for an interview. Because the Japanese army had killed prisoners of war before, the Japanese army was afraid of having a bad impact in the world, so it wanted to eliminate everyone in the safe zone before the reporters arrived, so that the killing of prisoners of war would not be revealed.
Sure enough, early the next morning, the Japanese surrounded the safe zone, but at the safe zone gate
The mouth has long gathered a large number of people, because the safe zone is their last hope. But in the face of these innocent Chinese, the Japanese officers still decided to order the massacre. At this moment, Rabe resolutely chose to stand up, he was going to die to protect the safe zone, but this did not pose the slightest threat to the Japanese officers, and the Japanese army ordered shooting. At this critical juncture, suddenly a voice rang out, well, the foreign reporter's ship docked. Forced to do so, the Japanese temporarily withdrew from here, and the safe zone was finally preserved.
People began to rejoice that they had escaped the disaster. Later, Raabe was forced to return to Germany. He left the safe zone with all his reluctance and said a deep goodbye to his colleagues, who sang German folk songs for him, and gradually left the place in the farewell of his colleagues. He walked through the ruins, saw the blood on the ground, remembered that Chinese had been killed here, and how much he hated war.
When he came to the dock, but found that it was crowded with people, he gradually approached, and suddenly a child found him, and people cheered and applauded him, shouting at him. Send him off. It was this German who risked his life and death and saved his family and compatriots. As he walked through the crowd, he saw a woman running toward him, yes, it was his wife. It turned out that his wife had a hard time not dying in that Japanese bombing and survived. This may be God's gift to him, he left his luggage and ran to his wife, and the two hugged each other tightly, enjoying the joy of recovery.
On average, Rabe collects a thousand bags of rice a day for the safe zone to sustain the livelihoods of Chinese refugees, and has also issued a safe residence certificate for each of them. Many years later, Mr. Rabe's eldest grandson, Thomas Raabe, became a doctor in Germany. During last year's pandemic, he personally sought medical assistance from China in Germany. After the Nanjing Municipal Government learned the news, when there was still a shortage of materials in China at that time, it collected tens of thousands of masks, hundreds of sets of drugs and protective clothing in a short period of time, sent a special plane to Germany, and personally delivered them to his hands. Emotions and goodness know no borders, and justice needs to be in jeopardy. War has brought us trauma, but also let us see the brilliance of human nature, we must learn to be grateful, grateful for those who have helped us, grateful for the current era of peace.