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John Rabe


Born
in Hamburg, Germany
November 23, 1882

Died
January 05, 1950

Genre
Biographies & Memoirs


John Rabe was a German businessman who is best known for his efforts to stop the atrocities of the Japanese army during the Nanking Occupation and, failing in those efforts, his work to protect and succour Chinese civilians during the event. The Nanjing Safety Zone, which he helped to establish, sheltered some 200,000 Chinese people from slaughter during the massacre.

His war-time diaries are published in English as The Good German of Nanjing (UK title) or The Good Man of Nanking (US title) (original German title: Der gute Deutsche von Nanjing).

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