An edition of The Good Man of Nanking (1998)

The good man of Nanking

the diaries of John Rabe

1st American ed.
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An edition of The Good Man of Nanking (1998)

The good man of Nanking

the diaries of John Rabe

1st American ed.
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A unique and gripping document: the recently discovered diaries of a German businessman, John Rabe, who saved so many lives in the infamous siege of Nanking in 1937 that he is now honored as the Oskar Schindler of China.

As the Japanese army closed in on the city and all foreigners were ordered to evacuate, Rabe felt it would shame him before his Chinese workers and dishonor the Fatherland if he abandoned them. Sending his wife to the north, he mobilized the remaining Westerners in Nanking and organized an "International Safety Zone" within which all unarmed Chinese were to be - by virtue of Germany's pact with Japan - guaranteed safety.

As hundreds of thousands of Chinese streamed into the city, the Japanese army began torturing, raping, and massacring them in untold numbers. All that stood between the Chinese and certain slaughter was Rabe and his committee, and it is thought that he saved more than 250,000 lives.

When the siege lifted in 1938 and Rabe finally felt able to leave, the Chinese gave him a banner that called him their Living Buddha, or Saint. Back home in Germany, he wrote Adolf Hitler to describe the Japanese atrocities he had witnessed. Two days later, the Gestapo arrested him. Miraculously, he was not sent to the camps.

As it turned out, Rabe survived the war and the starvation that followed because the Chinese government learned that he was alive, and Madame Chiang Kai-shek had food parcels sent to him. This book is the journal he kept each night during those months of horror and the difficult years that followed. It is the record of an unpretentious hero who, when faced with the inhuman, refused to yield his ground.

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English
Pages
294

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The Good Man of Nanking
August 2002, Blackstone Audiobooks
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April 2001, Reef Audio
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The Good Man of Nanking: The Diaries of John Rabe
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The good man of Nanking: the diaries of John Rabe
1998, A.A. Knopf, Distributed by Random House
in English - 1st American ed.

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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. 289-294).
Includes maps of Nanking and Asia in 1938.

Published in
New York
Genre
Diaries., Personal narratives, German.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
951.04/2
Library of Congress
DS796.N2 R3313 1998

The Physical Object

Pagination
xx, 294 p. :
Number of pages
294

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL356068M
Internet Archive
goodmanofnanking00rabe
ISBN 10
037540211X
LCCN
98015885
OCLC/WorldCat
38595490
Library Thing
99959
Goodreads
951307

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