The car stopped in front of an old house on the outskirts of Berlin, an old-fashioned German building. Zhang Ran, Zhang Jingchu and translator Xiao Wang got out of the car, came to the door, and rang the doorbell.

This is the home of Ursula Reinhardt, Rabe's most beloved granddaughter. Ursula was born in China and had been to Nanjing a few months before the fall of Nanjing, when she was only six years old. Zhang Chunru found her at the beginning, and it was only then that "Rabe's Diary" saw the light of day again.

The door opened, and a young man in his twenties saw Zhang Ran and greeted with a smile: "Hello, Mr. Zhang Ran, I am the grandson of Ursula Reinhardt, my name is Albert, come in!"

"Thank you!" Zhang Ran bowed slightly and walked into the room with Albert, and Zhang Jingchu and Xiao Wang also walked into the room.

Walking into the living room, Albert said loudly: "Grandmother, the guests from China have arrived!"

Ursula heard that the Chinese guest had arrived, and stood up, the old lady was nearly eighty years old, her face was wrinkled, her hair was gray, but she looked quite good in spirit.

Zhang Ran hurriedly stepped forward and greeted politely: "Hello, Mrs. Reinhardt!"

Ursula greeted kindly, "Come, sit down and talk!"

While sitting down, Zhang Ran looked at the room, the furnishings were relatively simple, and it was a very ordinary person. In the room, Zhang Ran saw two Chinese vases, and when he asked, he realized that they were the things that Rabe had brought back from Nanjing. After the end of World War II, Rabe lost his job because he was a member of the Nazi Party, and his life was very difficult. All the handicrafts he brought to Germany from China were sold, except for a few vases, cutlery, and boxes, all of which were kept in good condition.

After chatting for a while, Ursula began to tell Zhang Ran about "Rabe's Diary". Ten years after Rabe's death, Rabe's wife found the materials in the documents and wanted to give them to Ursula. Ursula was pregnant, busy with school exams, and more importantly, scared of the horrible contents of her diary. Ursula refused to keep them, and Rabe's son, Dr. Otto Rabe, inherited the documents. These materials have been kept in his hands for more than half a century, and they have not been known to the world, even German historians.

In 1996, when Zhang Chunru was sorting out the Holocaust materials, he found a piece of information that in February 38, Rabe returned to Germany with a film copy of the Nanjing atrocities filmed by John Magee, and before leaving, Rabe promised everyone that he would make the atrocities of the Dongying people public in Germany, and that he wanted to meet Goering and even Hitler. But after Rabe left, he was never heard from since, and his whereabouts have puzzled scholars for decades. Zhang Chunru believed that after Rabe returned to Germany, he must have encountered something wrong, and decided to find out the truth.

Through his efforts, Zhang Chunru got in touch with Rabe's descendants and corresponded with Ursula. Through correspondence with Ursula, Zhang Chunru learned that Rabe had kept his promise to the Chinese after returning to China, informing the German authorities of the Japanese atrocities in Nanjing, but was arrested by the Gestapo. Although Rabe was released on bail, he was asked not to speak, talk or write about the atrocities in Nanjing. In the correspondence, Zhang Chunru also learned the exciting news that Rabe's diary had been preserved, and she immediately persuaded Ursula to publish it.

Ursula said solemnly, "I decided to check those diaries carefully, so I borrowed them from my uncle and read them myself. However, the horror of the content was far beyond my imagination, and I felt dizzy and difficult to calm down, and I couldn't shake off that fear for months. ”

Zhang Ran understands that mood: "I'm like this, every time I go to read those materials, I don't dare to read too much, even so, the whole person is in a particularly low mood within a few days." Did you read the diary and decide to publish it?"

"Nope. Ursula looked at Zhang Ran and explained, "I found that in his diary he trusted Hitler and the Nazis very much, sometimes to the point of glorifying, and feared that public publication would become a stain on his life." ”

Zhang Ran immediately said: "That's not Mr. Rabe's fault, when the Nazis and Hitler came to power, he was in China, and he didn't know what happened in Germany, and he didn't know what they did; and if they weren't members of the Nazi Party, they wouldn't have been the chairman of the International Committee for the Security Zone, and they wouldn't have saved so many people." ”

Ursula was very happy to hear Zhang Ran say this: "Yes, of course, joining the Nazi Party is a common phenomenon in Germany, but we are still very worried about causing trouble. Zhang Chunru and Dr. Shao Ziping, president of the North American Federation of Compatriots Killed in the Nanjing Massacre, told me that to this day, there are still some right-wing people in Dongying who deny the history of the Nanjing Massacre. I was shocked that no one would deny the Holocaust and felt compelled to publish the diary and tell the world the truth, so I went to my uncle's house in the south and persuaded him to publish it. ”

Zhang Ran nodded, in fact, not only in Dongying, but also in China, there are a group of experts and scholars who have received Dongying funds, as well as Jingri, who does not collect money, and changes their tricks on the Internet to wash the floor for Dongying people.

Ursula continued to tell the story of the excavation of Rabe's diary, and at her request, her uncle gave her Rabe's diary about the Japanese occupation of Nanjing. After returning to Berlin, she spent 15 hours photocopying the diary and sending the photocopy to Dr. Shao Ziping.

After seeing the contents of the diary, Shao Ziping knew that it was an extremely important historical material, and feared that Japanese right-wingers would break into Ursula's house, destroy the diary, or buy the original with a lot of money, so he immediately rushed to Germany to take Ursula and her husband to New York. On December 12, 1996, the North American Federation of Compatriots Killed in the Nanjing Massacre held a press conference in New York, and Shao Ziping exhibited a copy of Rabe's diary sent to him by Ursula. The press conference, titled "Schindler in Nanjing," sparked a huge response in the United States.

After listening to Ursula's story, Zhang Ran asked, "Have you seen Zhang Chunru, what kind of person is she in your eyes?"

Ursula thought for a moment and said, "The first time I saw her was in December 1996, she was very young, only 27 years old, she was a very beautiful girl, with long black hair, a pair of big and bright eyes, she was relatively thin, but full of passion and vitality. ”

Zhang Ran asked, "What did you talk about after you met?"

Ursula fell into the memory, and after a while, she slowly began to talk about her past with Zhang Chunru.

At two o'clock in the afternoon, under the leadership of Albert, Zhang Ran and his entourage came to the cemetery of Wilhelm Memorial Church in the western suburbs of Berlin.

In the BB area, Zhang Ran and they saw the tomb of Rabe. A small patch of grass enclosed by cement strips under the big trees, with no tombstones, no statues, and no epitaphs, is unbelievably simple. If it weren't for a small wooden sign on the grass, it read: "John Rabe, 1882.11.23—1950.01.05." Zhang Ran: They absolutely couldn't believe that this was Rabe's cemetery. However, it is gratifying that there are not only flowers in front of the wooden plaque, but also a few purple Chinese sachets, which are obviously visited by Chinese tourists, at least the Chinese have not forgotten him.

Zhang Jingchu put the flowers in her hand in front of the wooden plaque, silently wishing for world peace in her heart.

Zhang Ran looked at Albert and asked, "Why don't you even have a decent tombstone?"

Albert told them that Rabe was buried there after his death in 1950. By 1985, the cemetery lease period had arrived. However, their family's financial situation is not very good, and the contract has not been renewed. At the end of '96, they transported Rabe's tombstone home and transferred it to the Memorial Hall of the Massacre Victims in Nanjing through the Chinese Embassy.

Since then, Rabe's descendants and the city of Nanjing have repeatedly asked the city of Berlin to grant Rabe's cemetery the status of a "cemetery of historical celebrities", but Berlin has vetoed it, and the city government does not want to pay for the cemetery. Eventually, the Nanjing municipal government paid the cemetery's rent for 40 years and said it would rebuild the Rabe cemetery in the future.

Just as Zhang Ran was talking to Albert, a pair of men and women in their fifties walked over, both of them carrying travel bags and supposed to be tourists. They came to Rabe's tomb and placed a bouquet of flowers in front of the wooden plaque.

Zhang Ran was a little curious about the foreigner and asked, "Did you come to see Mr. Rabe's grave?"

The male tourist looked at Zhang Ran and replied: "I was originally German, and now I live in Australia, and my uncle and aunt are buried in this cemetery. Rabe single-handedly fights terror and is a civilian hero worthy of respect!"

The female tourist said: "I only knew about Auschwitz before, but now I know Nanjing, Rabe is the real hero!"

Zhang Ran said with emotion: "Yes, it is precisely because there are so many people like Rabe that there will be righteousness, justice, and hope in this world, so that justice can defeat evil, and mankind can get out of the darkness and come to this day step by step!"

After the two tourists left, Zhang Ran looked at Albert and said, "I didn't expect the movie "Rabe's Diary" to have such a big influence. In his opinion, the film was really not very well made, quite mediocre.

Albert laughs: "After the release of Rabe's Diary more than ten years ago, the German version was circulated very small and did not attract much attention in Germany. But after the release of the movie "Rabe's Diary" last year, it triggered Rabe fever in Germany. The number of native Germans visiting Rabe's grave is increasing, with bookstores in Germany setting up small booths dedicated to Rabe's books, and John Rabe, written by Erwin Weiktz, has made it to the weekly Der Spiegel bestseller list. ”

Zhang Ran was relieved and sighed: "This is the power of movies, and the influence is really much greater than books!"

In fact, Zhang Chunru has always hoped that "Nanjing Massacre" can be made into a world-class movie, similar to "Schindler's List", so that more people can know the truth of the matter. Lu Chuan did it, but unfortunately it didn't shoot well. "Rabe's Diary" was also made into a movie, but the director was too young to control such a grand historical theme, and the quality of the film was mediocre, which seemed to have a good response in Germany, but had little influence in the world.

At this moment, Zhang Ran's mobile phone rang suddenly, and when he picked up his mobile phone, he saw that it was the number of Berlin, the organizing committee of the film festival, what happened? He answered the phone: "Hello, I'm Zhang Ran!"

The voice on the other end of the phone seemed to be a little excited: "Hello, Mr. Zhang! I'm Hannah of the International Federation of Film Critics, congratulations on winning the FIPRESCI Award, and I hope you can attend tonight's awards ceremony!"

Zhang Ran then remembered that today is the penultimate day of the Berlin Film Festival, and the International Union of Film Critics will award the FIPRESCI Award. Since its premiere in Berlin, it has been wildly sought after by Berlin and film critics, and it is expected that it will win an award from the International Federation of Film Critics.

Although the FIPRESCI Award is not a grand prize, Zhang Ran is still quite happy when the award masterpiece is recognized, and laughs: "Okay, we will definitely attend on time!"

Zhang Jing saw Zhang Ran's bright smile for the first time, and after he hung up the phone, she asked, "What's wrong?"

Zhang Ran smiled: "The International Federation of Film Critics let us participate in the awards ceremony in the evening!"

Zhang Jingchu screamed like a child, threw herself into his arms, and laughed: "Congratulations!

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