A true-story account of a German businessman who saved more than 200,000 Chinese during the Nanjing ...
A true-story account of a German businessman who saved more than 200,000 Chinese during the Nanjing massacre in 1937-38.
After 28 year building and managing a vast Siemen plant in Nanking, John Rabe is ordered by the new Nazi regime to close it down. Before he can pack, the Japanese army, lead unofficially by a bloodthirty imperial uncle, lays siege to the city. Rabe accepts, as prominent representative of Japan' major European ally, to head the Western ex-pats society's plan to start and run an international zone, like worked in Shangai. Rabe however wants it to save his worker and their close ones, over 200,000, and sacrifices all his peronal interests.
