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The Nazi Leader Who, in 1937, Became the Oskar Schindler of China - The Atlantic by Iris Chang Perhaps the most fascinating character to emerge from the his­tory of the Rape of Nanking is the German businessman John Rabe. To most of the Chinese in the city, he was a hero, “the living Buddha of Nanking,” the legendary head of the International Safety Zone who saved hundreds of thousands of Chi­nese lives. But to the Japanese, Rabe was a strange and unlikely savior. For he was not only a German national — a citizen of a country allied with Japan — but the leader of the Nazi Party in Nanking.

The Nazi Leader Who, in 1937, Became the Oskar Schindler of China - The Atlantic

by Iris Chang

Perhaps the most fascinating character to emerge from the his­tory of the Rape of Nanking is the German businessman John Rabe. To most of the Chinese in the city, he was a hero, “the living Buddha of Nanking,” the legendary head of the International Safety Zone who saved hundreds of thousands of Chi­nese lives. But to the Japanese, Rabe was a strange and unlikely savior. For he was not only a German national — a citizen of a country allied with Japan — but the leader of the Nazi Party in Nanking.

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