He was a Semiens branch manager in China in Nanking during the Rape of Nanking.
It’s full of him doing everything he can to minimize the casualties and harm and then he’ll be like “China is great because there aren’t any Jews here, I know Herr Hitler wouldn’t accept such wanton murder and rape from his allies if he knew about it. He’s a good socialist and a friend of the workers, after all!”
And then Rabe, the “Good Nazi,” fresh from saving countless lives from the IJA, returns to Germany and says he approves of the Party 100% in 1938, and to anyone’s knowledge never breathed a word of criticism about the Holocaust.
Oh yes, they knew, all of them. Anyone who tells you otherwise is lying.
John Rabe’s journal is a wild ride.
He was a Semiens branch manager in China in Nanking during the Rape of Nanking.
It’s full of him doing everything he can to minimize the casualties and harm and then he’ll be like “China is great because there aren’t any Jews here, I know Herr Hitler wouldn’t accept such wanton murder and rape from his allies if he knew about it. He’s a good socialist and a friend of the workers, after all!”
And then Rabe, the “Good Nazi,” fresh from saving countless lives from the IJA, returns to Germany and says he approves of the Party 100% in 1938, and to anyone’s knowledge never breathed a word of criticism about the Holocaust.