At Shao Ziping's house in Lane Town, Zhang Chunru was talking to Shao Ziping about Rabe. Shao Ziping told Zhang Chunru: "In 1993, I went to Germany to look for clues about Rabe, I checked the phone book in Berlin, made a lot of calls, and found more than 50 Rabe, but none of them were the Rabe we were looking for. I also searched the archives of the church in Berlin to find clues about Rabe and his descendants in the documents of the church's activities, but I did not find any records. ”

Zhang Chunru nodded slightly and said: "I brought back a lot of files on the Nanjing Massacre from China, which contain a lot of diplomatic reports from the German government on the Nanjing Massacre. These reports mentioned that the German side repeatedly asked Rabe to leave Nanjing and return to Germany, but Rabe refused. Later, the German government issued an ultimatum to Rabe through Siemens headquarters, asking him to leave Nanjing, go to Shanghai, and return to Germany. It is clear that the German government saw his actions in Nanking as an obstacle to the foreign policy between Germany and Japan. There is no information about Rabe's return to China in these materials. ”

Shao Ziping sighed and said: "When Rabe left Nanjing, he promised that he would inform the German government of everything that happened in Nanjing, and would submit a report on the atrocities in Nanjing to Goering and Hitler. After he arrived in Shanghai, he also took a copy of the documentary that Feige had smuggled to Shanghai to develop and brought it back to Germany. The people of Nanjing hoped that Rabe's case would allow Germany to put pressure on the Dongying government to stop the atrocities. But after Rabe left China, he was never heard from, did not participate in the Tokyo trial, and there was no news, as if he had evaporated from the world. He looked at Zhang Chunru and said, "Didn't you write about the Nanjing Street Massacre, and Rabe's message after returning to Germany is very important?"

Zhang Chunru said: "I want to know Rabe's later fate, and whether the documentary and report were finally sent to Hitler, in the book I must explain the fate of Rabe, John Magee, and their later fate; and I think Rabe is a great hero to the Chinese, and we also have the responsibility to find out his later fate." ”

In a set of quick-cut shots, Zhang Chunru begins to visit the descendants of John Magee and others, as well as some historians, trying to find information from them about Rabe's departure from Nanjing, but no one knows Rabe's later fate.

The camera cuts to Zhang Chunru's room, where Zhang Chunru sits in front of the computer, tapping on the keyboard, and at the same time the voiceover sounds: "Dear Dr. Martha Beechman, hello." Charles Berdick, a historian in Ferndale, Calif., told me that you are an expert on German history and can help me. On December 12, 1937, after the Japanese captured Nanjing, the soldiers slaughtered 260,000 to 350,000 Chinese civilians and brutally raped 20,000 to 80,000 Chinese women. In this massacre, a group of Westerners set up a 2-square-kilometer security zone in Nanjing, protecting about 250,000 refugees. The head of the security zone was German businessman Johann Rabe......"

Just then, there was a knock on the door. The camera switched, the door opened, and Futian from the Dongying Embassy walked into Rabe's house at No. 1 Xiaofenqiao, and the time returned to 1938.

After entering the living room, Fukuda very politely told Rabe that he had come to discuss with Rabe about going to Shanghai. But without saying a word, Fukuda couldn't help but tear off his mask and threaten Rabe: "If you speak ill of us to a newspaper reporter in Shanghai, you are an enemy of the Dongying army." ”

Rabe calmly asked, "So, what are you allowed me to say in Shanghai?"

Fukuda replied, "It's up to you." ”

Rabe said in a slightly mocking tone: "In my opinion, you expect me to say to the press: The situation in Nanking is getting better day by day, and your journal should not publish any more reports about the criminal acts of the Dongying soldiers, which is tantamount to adding fuel to the fire and adding to the atmosphere of discord between the Dongying and the Europeans." ”

Fukuda didn't pay attention to the sarcasm in Rabe's words, and said with a smile: "It would be great if you could say that!"

The camera cuts to the Golden Lady University, and Weitling and they organize a farewell tea party for Rabe in the Golden Girl University refugee camp. Foreigners and the Chinese officials in the safe zone came over to clink glasses with Rabe and each took a sip.

At this moment, Cheng Ruifang came in and whispered to Wei Tling that a group of women had gathered outside the door to say goodbye to Rabe. Weitling said to Rabe, "Mr. Rabe, some of the women in our camp want to say goodbye to you. Can you go meet them?"

"Absolutely. Rabe raised his teacup and drank it down, and followed Weitling to the door. Everyone else came out as well. The scene in front of the Science Building not only shocked Rabe, but also shocked the audience in front of the screen. More than 3,000 women and girls knelt on the ground and wept bitterly and begged: "Please don't go!

When Rabe was about to leave, the girls pulled the back of Rabe's suit and held on. In the end, Rabe had to leave the car behind and squeeze a way out of the gate under the leadership of Cheng Ruifang. Rabe was in a very heavy mood on the way home, and he was reluctant to leave Nanjing, but the German government forced him to return home, and he had to leave.

At 4 p.m. on February 21, at the headquarters at No. 5 Ninghai Road, the International Committee held a grand farewell party for Rabe. People handed Rabe letters of thanks in both Chinese and English, and warmly praised Rabe. Everyone raised their glasses and wished Rabe good health and all the best when he returned to Germany. Despite his strong appearance, Rabe is not in good health. Because he was diabetic, he always had a bottle of insulin and a syringe in his pocket.

Rabe made an enthusiastic remark at the meeting: "I thank you very much, dear friends, for your invitation to give you the opportunity to address you one last time before I leave here and return to Europe.

As you all already know by this time, the International Commission for the Nanjing Security Zone has now changed its name to "Nanjing International Relief Commission". The French might say, "Long live the king when the king is dead." "We will continue to work under a new name that better matches the nature of our work now. In other words, after the security zone had to be abolished by order of the Toei people, we were only a pure relief committee from now on. Please pay attention to the word "pure", which means that there is not much to say, but nothing is much......"

After Rabe's speech, the audience applauded thunderously. The audience in front of the screen also applauded, especially the Chinese and Chinese, who wept and clapped softly, in this way to pay their respects to Rabe.

People gathered on the screen, especially the Chinese, who begged Rabe to leave the speech so that it could be translated into Chinese. Many Chinese asked Rabe for an autograph, and they brought a large blank piece of paper and asked Rabe to fill it up no matter how he did.

At 8 a.m. on February 23, 1938, the time of separation came, and all Americans reluctantly bid Rabe goodbye. Jeffrey and Williams of the British embassy personally escorted Rabe to the British gunboat "Bee" in Shimonoseki. At 9 o'clock, the gunboat set sail, and Rabe waved goodbye to Sperling, Han Xianglin and others who came to see them off.

The river is surrounded by gunboats and gradually drifts away, just like what is written in the ancient poem: "The lonely sail is far away and the blue sky is exhausted, and only the Yangtze River skyline can be seen!"

The camera cuts to Zhang Chunru's home, Zhang Chunru sits in front of the computer and reads email, and the voiceover sounds: "Hello Ms. Zhang Chunru." After receiving your letter, I wrote to Paster Müller in Bavaria, who collected a lot of information on the whereabouts of the Germans who had been in China. He immediately called me to tell me the names of Rabe's son, Dr. Otto-Rabe, and Rabe's daughter, Margrette. Through them, I met Rabe's granddaughter, Ursula Reinhardt......"

Zhang Chunru taps on the keyboard, and the voiceover sounds: "Hello Ms. Ursula Reinhardt! My name is Zhang Chunru, and I am a writer who has recently been writing a book about the Nanjing Massacre. Your grandfather, John Rabe, is the head of the International Committee for the Nanjing Security Zone......"

As soon as the phone rang, Zhang Chunru walked to the table and connected the phone. Shao Ziping's excited voice came from the other end of the phone: "Chunru, I translated the document sent by Ursula Reinhardt, and one of the materials was written by Rabe about his experience of being detained by the secret services after returning to China, and there was a sentence in the letter: 'Please see my diary for the details of this matter', which means that Rabe probably wrote his experience in Nanjing into a diary!"

Zhang Chunru was also excited when he heard this: "Did Rabe write a diary in Nanjing?

"There is no diary, you should contact Ursula Reinhardt quickly to see if Rabe's diary has been preserved. Shao Ziping said excitedly, "If there really is Rabe's diary, if the diary was really written during the Nanjing Massacre, then its value will exceed the testimony of American missionaries, because Germany is an ally of Dongying, and Rabe, as a German, should have stood on the side of Dongying." ”

Zhang Chunru immediately said: "I'll contact Ursula immediately!"

After hanging up Shao Ziping's phone, Zhang Chunru immediately tapped on the keyboard and sent Reinhardt an email: "Hello Ursula! When I was reading the documents you sent, I saw that Mr. Rabe had mentioned that he had written diaries during his time in Nanjing, but I wonder if these diaries have been preserved and what they are......

The camera cuts to the InterContinental Hotel in New York, USA, at 2:30 p.m. on December 12, 1996. The Federation of Victims of the Nanjing Massacre in New York rented a hall for $600 to hold a press conference for the publication of Rabe's Diary, which attracted mainstream media from all over the world.

Numerous television cameras and cameras were pointed at a German woman. She was Ursula Reinhardt, the granddaughter of John Rabe, the chairman of the International Committee of the Nanjing Security Zone, who showed reporters from all over the world the wartime diaries and materials written by her maternal grandfather, John Rabe, during the Nanjing Massacre.

At the meeting, when introducing the bumpy discovery of "Rabe's Diary", Shao Ziping said: "The release of "Rabe's Diary" should first of all be thanks to Zhang Chunru, a writer who lives in Sunnyvale, California. When she was collecting information for the book on the Nanjing Massacre, she found Reinhardt in order to trace Rabe's whereabouts, and we learned that Rabe still had a diary. ”

A series of quick cuts appeared on the screen, and a series of newspapers, such as The New York Times, The Guardian, Le Monde, and People's Daily, all reported the news in the form of front-page headlines, followed by news clips of CNN, ABC, BBC, CCTV and other television stations reporting the release of "Rabe's Diary".

"Rabe's Diary", which has been silent for more than half a century, has resurfaced and caused a sensation all over the world!

The atmosphere of the movie "Angel of Justice" is very heavy and depressing, although Zhang Ran has been adjusting his emotions through various means and arranging some small points for the audience's emotions to release, the audience still feels uncomfortable and breathless. "Rabe's Diary" came out and attracted worldwide attention, which undoubtedly gave everyone's emotions a great release.

Everyone knows that the publication of "Rabe's Diary" is undoubtedly a heavy blow to those who want to cover up and distort the truth of the Nanjing Massacre!