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John Heinrich Detlef Rabe (23 November 1882 – 5 January 1950) was a German businessman and Nazi Party member best known for his efforts to stop war crimes during the Japanese Nanjing Massacre (also romanized as Nanking) and his work to protect and help Chinese civilians during the massacre that ensued.
John Heinrich Detlef Rabe was a German Nazi Party member and a businessman who tried to stop the war crimes by the Japanese Empire during World War II. The atrocities committed by the Empire of Japan during the war, referred to as the ‘Asian Holocaust,’ resulted in the rape and murder of between 40,000 to 300,000 civilians and prisoners of war.
John Rabe was a courageously humanitarian Siemens employee saved the Chinese civilian population during the Second Sino-Japanese War of 1937-38.
Jan 18, 2012 · Perhaps the most fascinating character to emerge from the history of the Rape of Nanking is the German businessman John Rabe. To most of the Chinese in the city, he was a hero, "the living...
Jun 14, 2010 · John Rabe was a real German businessman who lived in Nanking, now called Nanjing; for decades, he managed the operations of the Siemens company there. A member of the Nazi Party, Rabe had...
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Dec 12, 1996 · Now a recently unearthed diary reveals an unlikely rescuer of thousands of Chinese: a German businessman living in China who was the leader of the local Nazi organization. The businessman, John...
Aug 26, 2020 · NANJING, Aug. 26 (Xinhua) -- For decades, Hamburg-born John Rabe has been a household name in Nanjing, a Chinese city thousands of kilometers away from Germany that was traumatized by a massacre during World War II.
