January 5, 1949 (Lunar twelfth lunar month, seventh day), "China's Schindler" John Rabe's death.




John Rabe (1882 - 1949 January 5, 2011) was born in the city of Hamburg. Its famous world respectfully referred to as "China's Schindler" saved about 20 million Chinese people in Nanjing Massacre. In 1908, Siemens Company employed, business began in Shenyang, China, Beijing, Tianjin, Shanghai, Nanjing and other places. 1931 to 1938 years ago, Rabe was Germany's Nazi Party Nanjing Segment Vice Minister. He witnessed the Nanjing Massacre, the Japanese army in Nanjing, China manufacturing and recorded as the famous "John Rabe. Rabe and a dozen foreign missionaries, professor at the University of Nanking Ginling, doctors, businessmen, etc. during the Nanjing Massacre, co-sponsored the establishment of the Nanjing Safety Zone, and Chairman of the International Committee of the safe area; Nanjing Safety The area is about 25 million Chinese civilians provide shelter to shelter. Returned to Germany in 1938, wrote to Hitler on June 8, submitted a report on the Nanjing Massacre, but the report did not open (generally considered the German authorities banned the German and Japanese allies, he saw and published in Nanjing smell). After that, he even once arrested by the Gestapo.
after the end of World War II, Rabe was a Nazi party member has been arrested by the Soviet Union and the United Kingdom. After confirmed that he was no fault of the Allies in June 1946, he was the denazification and release of living in poverty. In view of the achievements in Nanjing, he thus monthly money and food aid to the Nationalist government. Rabe, died in West Berlin in 1950, the diary data saved by his grandson. 1997 moved his tombstone from Berlin to Nanjing.
Nanjing International Safety Zone and the International Committee of the Red Cross in Nanjing by some members of the Committee, center John Rabe. (Lssjt.cn)
John Rabe and his family.