China Hails a Good Nazi and Makes Japan Take Notice

[Foxy Brown]

From the outside it does not look like much: the shell of a two-story brick building with scaffolding running up its sides and, on a drizzly winter day, a pair of construction workers kicking around in a courtyard littered with building materials.

But 69 years ago the courtyard was filled with hundreds of Chinese seeking refuge from Japanese troops who were rampaging through the city, then China's capital. The invaders subjected Nanjing to a six-week reign of terror, killing large numbers of Chinese soldiers who had thrown down their weapons and murdering and raping thousands of civilians.

[ayou099]

A good ol' John Rabe. I had to do my essay on the nanjing massacre. Apparently this guy was appalled with what the Japanese were doing and advised hitler not to be allies with Japan anymore.

[daigong]

Bravo. It took an outsider, let alone a Nazi to make the world notice The Rape of Nanking, one of the world's most horrific massacres. I just wish the Japanese government would not sidestep this issue all the time.