When China was invaded by the Japanese and Nanjing fell, there were two supreme good people who saved tens of thousands of Chinese. These two men, one is John Rabe and the other is Minneweitling.

Johann Rabe, born in Hamburg, Germany, is the most typical German. At the time of John Rabe's birth, the German Empire was at its strongest. Britain and France were almost overwhelmed, and Tsarist Russia was terminally ill and unable to pull itself together.

The advanced education system of the Germans allowed John Rabe to receive the most advanced education in the world at that time. And Johann Rabe, who had a strong sense of German honor, was naturally very dissatisfied after the defeat of the Germans after World War I and was forced to sign the "Treaty of Versailles", which was unequal to Germany.

In 1908, John Rabe became the commercial representative of Siemens AG in Germany and has been living in China ever since. Because China was also the victor in World War I, John Rabe was also expelled by China after the end of World War I.

Later, Lao Chiang took root in Nanjing, recognized the legitimate rights and interests of Siemens in China, and that China was unjustly treated in the signing of the Treaty of Versailles, and the surveillance and expulsion of John Rabe came to an end.

This kind of encounter made John Rabe quickly fall to Hitler. When Hitler absorbed the Nazi party, Johann Rabe became a veteran among the Nazis. In 1931, due to his extensive experience in Chinese affairs, Johann Rabe became the deputy head of the Nanjing branch of the German Nazi Party.

The "Rabe Diary", which records the atrocities of the Japanese army in Nanjing, was written from this time.

John Rabe's rescue of the Chinese began when the Japanese attacked Nanjing, not when the Japanese entered the city of Nanjing and began the massacre. At this time, John Rabe was a Nazi patriarch. So the identity is special, and the Japanese are nominally allies.

However, John Rabe joined the Nazis simply because the whole of Europe oppressed the Germans too much. And not because of anything else. Humanity is far superior to that of his titular Japanese ally. In November 1937. When the Japanese army began its attack on Nanjing, John Rabe housed about 600 Chinese refugees in his Nanjing residence.

That's not a lot, it's not too little. But if that's all there is to it, what John Rabe did is far from shocking. Due to their special status as Nazis, the Japanese did not take the initiative to harm John Rabe. Therefore, John Rabe and a dozen other foreigners jointly initiated the establishment of the Nanjing Security Zone.

John Rabe, who has Nazi identity. Became the Chairman of the International Committee for Safe Zones. This small security zone is only four square kilometers in total, but it protected 300,000 Chinese refugees as the Japanese army carried out wanton massacres against Chinese civilians.

This figure is comparable to the number of Chinese slaughtered by the Japanese! And without the protection of John Rabe, the Nanjing Massacre carried out by the Japanese army, the Chinese casualties would probably not be 300,000, but 600,000!

John Rabein is the chairman of the International Committee on the Security Zone. So it has all the important responsibilities in the region. This includes feeding these Chinese refugees who have fled into safe zones and finding medicines. Treat it and so on. The 600 refugees he initially took in were also supported by him alone. The heavy lifting caused his diabetes to recur.

"Rabe's Diary" is just John Rabe, talking about things for entertainment after work. So, there is no deception or falsehood in what is said.

And while trying to feed the refugees. John Rabe began to take pictures all over the world and gather information about the Nanjing Massacre by the Japanese. And handed over to Sorge, an intelligence analyst at the German embassy in Japan. Gathering intelligence was originally part of John Rabe's job.

However, due to the alliance between the Japanese and the Germans, John Rabe gathered information about the Nanjing Massacre. And it was not taken seriously by the Japanese and Germans. Moreover, John Rabe's resistance to the Japanese also angered the Japanese. After ventilating with the Germans, John Rabe was recalled to Germany and placed under investigation.

Since then, John Rabe has been imprisoned one after another. Because he often preached about the Nanjing Massacre in public, John Rabe was arrested by the Gestapo and placed under house arrest after his release.

And after the defeat of the Germans, the British arrested him and imprisoned him because of his status as a Nazi senator. Although, thanks to the large number of letters of guarantee presented by the Chinese, the British released John Rabe. But it doesn't end there.

After leaving the British prison, John Rabe was arrested by the Soviets.

According to the true development of history, after the news of John Rabe's arrest reached China, the Chinese would make up enough bail for him. Then, John Rabe was released from prison and died in 1950, and the "Rabe Diary", which records the crimes of the Japanese in Nanjing, will also be dusted because of John Rabe's death.

It was not until 1996 that Zhang Chunru visited Mrs. Reinhardt, the granddaughter of Rabe, who had worked as an English teacher in a middle school in Berlin, through the network of the German Teachers' Association. A package marked "Rabe's materials on the Nanjing War" was sent from Berlin, Germany, to the Memorial Hall of the Nanjing Massacre Victims of the Japanese Invasion of China, and "Rabe's Diary" was rediscovered.

By this time, the Japanese had completely recovered from the wounds of the war and began to act as a powerful man again.

As the rest of his life, how could this happen again. Because of the good relations with the Soviets for the rest of his life, John Rabe was quickly released from prison after a large amount of dollars were spilled out. Although he couldn't see Rabe for the rest of his life, money could be channeled.

Yu Sheng, through the French connections, was funded by Yu Sheng, and in Germany, John Rabe was specially equipped with a personal doctor who was good at treating diabetes. and wrote a large check as an advance payment for the publication of Rabe's Diary.

After the publication of "Rabe's Diary", in Nanjing, the terrifying sales of more than 10,000 copies a day were sold, and I am afraid that John Rabe, who did 300,000 Chinese again, will not repeat the bleak evening scene after doing all the good deeds. Food, clothing, housing, transportation, medical care and pension will have a good economic guarantee.

The only thing that left the rest of my life to regret was the death of Minneweitling. Minneweitling, who also rescued tens of thousands of women in China, died in 1941.

Minnie Weitling, although she has done many good deeds in her life, her life is not too good. She is four years younger than John Rabe. He was born in 1886 in Seacole, Illinois, USA. Due to his poor family background, he can only work long hours to earn money and earn tuition.

In 1917, Weitling was admitted to the University of Illinois to study teacher training, and in 1919, Weitling was recruited for the Jinling Women's University in Nanjing. Take charge of school affairs. Subsequently, she served as the Dean of Academic Affairs of Jinling Women's College of Arts and Sciences.

In December 1937, before the Japanese were stationed in Nanjing, the Jinling Women's College of Arts and Sciences, presided over by Weitling, set up a refugee shelter for women and children. Weitling himself became a member of the Nanjing Committee of the International Red Cross.

It became a refuge for Chinese women and children during the Nanjing Massacre. According to the recollections of John Magee and John Rabe, Weitling was a Chinese woman housed at the Jinling Women's University. There are at least 10,000 of them. And the number of children carried by these women is not counted.

However, Weitling never seems to have calculated in detail how many people she had saved. Her diary began on August 12, 1937, and began in April 1940. Weitling keeps a diary almost every day, and every month she sends her to her American friends.

Until Wang's puppet government, instructed by the Japanese, poured dirty water on Weitling. Weitling went insane and returned to the United States.

Year 1940. The Purple Mountain Evening News, which is in the hands of Wang's puppet government. The article "The Real Criminal" was published, which led the conversation to Weitling. The article says: "Let's look at the so-called female bodhisattva of compassion! Minnie Weitling is actually a trafficker, a traitor who betrays the Chinese. We must expose her, and we must settle the accounts on her head of the women and girls who were dedicated to the Japanese army. ”

The author of this article plucks the facts from the beginning to the end and confuses right and wrong. A real historical fact. In fact, it is the original version of the story of the later movie "The Thirteen Hairpins of Jinling".

After the Japanese entered Nanjing, on Christmas Eve 1937, a senior officer of the Japanese army made it clear to Weitling: "We will select a hundred prostitutes from 10,000 refugees!" ”

If Weitling did not agree, the consequences of the matter were obvious, and the Japanese did not say that they would arrest civilians. It's just a matter of "picking prostitutes". If Weitling refused, the Japanese would have an excuse to do it, and by that time, more than a hundred people would have been injured.

After all, Weitling was just a woman, and she didn't have much of a deterrent effect on the Japanese. According to the memories of later refugees, there were also Japanese soldiers who slapped Weitling. Wetling had no choice but to agree: he asked the Japanese: "Promise not to take away the women of good families, and let the girls volunteer." ”

The word "voluntary" is not just a rhetorical one. It takes the courage to die generously. As in the movie, after Weitling conveyed the news to the Chinese women in the house, 21 Chinese women who had worked in the industry came forward. And pulled away by the trucks of the Japanese.

Originally, this was just one of the many things that Weitling used to deal with the various demands of the Japanese. However, after the processing of removing the cause and effect by someone with a heart, the taste changes. Mrs. Denison, the de facto head of the Jinling Women's University, was furious. Didn't listen to any explanation from Weitling at all.

A few days after the article was published, Weitling wrote in his diary: "I am almost exhausted. In the past, although the work was progressing slowly, it was possible to draw up a work plan in a step-by-step manner, but now it is impossible to do even this, and my hands do not listen to me. I hope to go on vacation right away. ……”

Weitling then quit her job. Years of hard work, in exchange for the misunderstanding and incomprehension of others. With a knot in her heart, Weitling suffered from depression. On May 14, 1940, Weitling returned to the United States for treatment. On May 14, 1941, Weitling committed suicide in the United States.

It was not until the eighties of the twentieth century, when Americans were sorting out archival materials, that the original manuscript of Weitling's diary was found among the many discarded materials. It was only then that Weitling's diary was taken seriously.

It was not until the 90s that the librarian of the Special Collections Room of the Yale Divinity School Library sorted out the original manuscript of Weitling's diary and made it microfilm for public in view of the high archival value of Weitling's diary.

Yu Sheng knew about this, but when he was in Shanghai Tang, he was fledgling and couldn't care about anything at all. By the time he arrived in the United States and was thriving, Weitling had already passed away. When Yu Sheng and Qing Xiaoyi went to Japan and left the United States, they had already instructed their subordinates to get the original manuscript of Weitling's diary.

As for the proceeds of the publication, it can be given to Weitling's surviving family. After months of searching, Yu Sheng finally obtained the original manuscript of Weitling's diary, which was translated and released in China, the United States, and Japan. In the preface, there are only four large Chinese characters on Wei Tling's tombstone - Jinling Eternal Life.

Of course, when the Chinese were massacred by the Japanese army, the Japanese were not the only three who came out, John Magee, John Rabe and Minnie Weitling. Just as later generations commented, the reason why the Chinese in Nanjing were not completely slaughtered was because there were still one or two dozen foreigners who came forward.

Although even if these people leave, no one will blame them, because they have no obligations and responsibilities to these hundreds of thousands of unarmed Chinese. Those who have obligations and responsibilities for these Chinese are thousands of miles away.

Therefore, as long as they can stay to help the Chinese, they should be regarded as good by nature. As Minnie Weitling wrote in her diary: "Those of us who think that war is a national crime, a sin against the spirit of creation in the depths of the hearts of all things in heaven and earth, but we can dedicate our strength to the innocent victims, and to those whose families have been burned and robbed, or who have been injured by artillery or airplanes in times of war, to help them recover." ”

War tests human nature, and these people should be considered the best people.

For these famous or unknown people, the rest of your life naturally cannot be indifferent. From John Magee and John Rabe, he asked for a list of foreigners who had helped the Chinese in Nanjing, and asked his subordinates to find rewards one by one.

And, invite these people to write memoirs. The crimes committed by the Japanese in Nanjing will be exposed.

The three sets of books, "Rabe's Diary", "Weitling's Diary" and "Nine Hundred and Thirty-six Witnesses", were extremely popular after they were published in China. After all, this matter is too big to forget. Moreover, these three sets of books occupy a righteous name.

Even if there is no flowery rhetoric, it will become a classic. (To be continued.) )