Par 2/2 发现拉贝日记 Discovery of John Rabe's diary 2/2

[boiledegg777]

John H.D. Rabe was chairman of The International Committee for Nanking Safety Zone.

He wrote letters to docter of Nanjing University hospital.

He wrote in the letter that Japan did some good deed. Rabe appreciated Japan forces.

[undertakerRach]

(Part6) There were someone strongly resisted the change of policy taken by Hitler. They were Von Falkenhausen, the head of the military advisory group in China, and Rabe, who represented an interest of Siemens in the Chinese munitions industry as a pro-Chinese group. Rabe exaggerated the Japanese Armys atrocities and requested Hitler to reconsider the alliance with Japan.

[undertakerRach]

(Part5)The Sino-Japanese War forced Germany to reconsider its foreign policy toward China. The Japanese government repeatedly demanded that Germany stop the export of weapons to Japan's enemy Chiang Kai-shek. As the result, Hitler decided to take advantage of containment against the Soviet Union by promoting strong relationship with Japan. Germany refrained from exporting weapons to the Chiang Kai-shek. (In fact, it was in l940 when Germany reached an agreement with Japan.)

[undertakerRach]

(Part4)Why did Rabe make a false report of the massacre to Hitler?

According to German historian Gerhard Krebs, the reason was based on power politics in his German homeland. Defeated and depressed in World War I, Germany knew that china was a significant trade partner. Particularly Chiang Kai-shek, who was fighting against the CCP, needed a large number of weapons, while Germany was able to import raw materials that were indispensable for the postwar reconstruction.

[undertakerRach]

(Part3)For Fear of counter objections, he reported to the Japanese authorities in Nanking city the number of casualties to be 49 based on some extent of reliable information. But on the other hand, to journalists, German diplomats and A. Hitler who were all absent in Nanking, he reported figures with an enormous difference, as if no less than tens of thousands civilians had been killed by Japanese troops.

[undertakerRach]

(Part2)Of the 250,000 refugees in Nanking city, a large proportion is homeless due to the extensive burning that has taken place in the city and its vicinity. Also there are many hundreds, if not thousands, of cases there the wage earner has either been taken away or killed, and where the family is in acute distress.

[undertakerRach]

(Part1)John Rabe, who had never witnessed even one case of murder, sent a report to Hitler by saying The number of victims were 50000 to 60000, while to the German Embassy in Shanghai, by saying 'thousands'. On the other hand, in the letter to Prideaux-Brune, the British ambassador at Nanking dated on January 28, he wrote as follows:

[oddballrach]

(Part2)However, these collections show no evidence of any vigorous critical attempt to distinguish between valid primary materials and other materials: photographs, for instance, which are known to be fabricated, or from different areas and different times, continue to be used to "prove" Japanese guilt in the winter of 1937-38 at Nanjing.

[oddballrach]

(Part1)The Nanjing Incident

Recent Research and Trends by David Askew

The majority of academic research on the Nanjing Incident is conducted in Japanese, English and Chinese. Of the three language groups, Japanese has produced the most sophisticated research, with the debate in English lagging decades behind. The most objective Chinese language materials are the collections of various primary sources, including the recollections of many of the Chinese military personnel in Nanjing.

[foxming]

感人。

[deestilo]

Rachel0041 = the Axis Sally = Tokyo Rose.

[Rachel0041]

(Part5)This is the letter from the International Committee to Japanese Commander Matsui.

「Dear Sirs. We express our appreciation to your artillerys praiseworthy act of having not attacked the safety zone and for becoming able to communicate with you (commander Matsui) about the future plan for supporting Chinese citizens in the same area. 」 (Stenography No.210).

[Rachel0041]

(Part4)They testified they did not witness any murder and heard from someone. This trial proved nobody witnessed murders actually and they wrote reports on the basis of Hearsay. And yet, John Rabe sent a following letter of appreciation to the commander of Japanese army on behalf of the International Committee (Dec. 14).

[Rachel0041]

(Part3)According to these 61 reports, they reported murder: 41, mayhem: 44, rape: 361, taking: 390, plunder and others: 170 for 2 months. However, all of these reports were hearsay, in other words, nobody of this committee witnessed them actually. The International Military Tribunal for the Far East (Tokyo Trial: 1946-1948) summoned 4 members of this committee included John G.Magee, George Ashmore Fitch, Miner Searle Bates and Robert O.Wilson.

[Rachel0041]

(Part2)This committee wrote reports regarding the security situation of Nanking city 61 times from Dec.13, 1937 to Feb.9, 1938 and sent the same reports to Japanese Embassy, Embassy of the United States, British Embassy and Germany Embassy. All of these 61 reports are included in What War Means written by H.J.Timperley (The Manchester Guardianin) July of 1938.

[Rachel0041]

NOBODY WITNESSED MURDERS ACTUALLY

January 17, 2007

(Part1)There was the International Committee for Nanking Safety Zone. This committee consisted of 22 Westerners and the chairman of this committee was John H.D.Rabe. The members of this committee contained John G.Magee, George Ashmore Fitch, Miner Searle Bates, Robert O.Wilson and Lewis S.C.Smythe.

[lhaplus44]

綺麗な人だなぁ・・・

So beautiful lady　♪

[chinesevietguy]

The Chinese government took in 1000s of Jewish refugees during the ww2 did they not? I heard theres a small Jewish community in Shanghai.

[Dankakyo]

非常感谢提供这份采访，感人至深中国人永远不会忘记自己的恩人！­

[whykid83]

das ist ja ne Ohrfeige zu den Japaner!

[borneon]

Absolut!! hast du denn das Interview verstanden?

Als der Journalist das Tagebuch gefunden hat, hat er die deutsche Behörde kontaktiert. Trotzdem haben sie keinerlei Interesse gezeigt. Zum Glück hat NYT, die Zeitung dem Journalist geholfen usw, um den Fund zu publizieren usw....

What a great story. Thanks for posting the interview!!

[whykid83]

Ja, natuerlich kann ich verstehen. Ich kann chinesisch

[Orangeprincess0611]

a great personality. we should remember him forever. wonder why I haven't heared about him before...

[4485lolo]

john rabe....this is the great german who sheltered one of my distant great aunt from the japanese...god bless