 Aloha everyone. We hope you will think about, and learn from, the story told in this ThinkTech commentary. Here's the story. After Kristallnacht in 1938, many Jews fled from Europe to the safety of Shanghai, in China, where thanks to the kindness of the Chinese, they could enter without a visa. But after a while, the Japanese invaded and took over Shanghai. A Japanese military commandant was appointed to be in charge. One day, a German ship appeared in the harbor. The captain visited the Japanese commandant and asked him to put all the Jews on the German ship to be returned to Germany. The Japanese commandant called a meeting with the rabbis of the Jewish community to have them make arrangements for all the Jews to board the ship the following morning to return to Germany. One of the rabbis said, commandant, you understand, don't you, that when they take us back to Germany, they will murder us in death camps. That is why they are here. It is the Holocaust. The commandant was surprised to hear this and said to the rabbi, for them to want to take you back to Germany and murder you that way, they must really hate you. Why do they hate you so much? The rabbi gave this answer. Commandant were really not sure why they hate us so much. But we think it has something to do with our origins, that we came from the fertile crescent between East and West and along the Silk Road from the Orient. In short, we think they hate us so much because we are in part Asian. The Japanese commandant thought about that and in the morning, he told the German commander that he was not going to order the Jews to board the ship. The German ship then went back to Germany, empty. This story was told to us by the daughter of that rabbi. It is a true story, as reflected in a movie that was later made about the Jewish community in Shanghai, called the Shanghai Ghetto. Thank you for your consideration of the story told and the views expressed in this ThinkTech commentary. Aloha.