China was in flames when a German businessman became a reluctant hero.
When the Imperial Japanese Army invaded China in 1937, attacking the
civilian population of the capital Nanking with unprecedented
inhumanity, John Rabe, manager of Siemens' China branch and a resident
in the country for 27 years, took action. Along with a few other members
of the foreign community including doctors and missionaries who
remained in the city, and driven by simple humanitarian concerns, shock
at the appalling
behaviour of
Germany's Asian ally, and a love for the country and people among whom
he had worked for so long, he created a safety zone in which a quarter
of a million civilians survived what was later to go down in history as
the "Nanking Massacre."
Directed By: Florian Gallenberger
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