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Amparo 2022-01-22 08:03:47
"Rabe's Diary": Rabe is great, and the movie is mediocre
I will not deny Rabe's greatness because of the mediocrity of a movie, and likewise I will not admit Rabe's greatness to a mediocre movie. Although "Rabe's Diary" won a grand prize in Germany, it does not mean that this is a good film depicting the Nanjing Massacre. The disappointment brought to me...
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Darien 2022-01-22 08:03:47
Don't forget the national humiliation
The Nanjing Massacre can be said to be the pain in the heart of every Chinese. "Rabe’s Diary" does not have too many scenes of killing, violence and other scenes. It narrates the Japanese massacre in Nanjing relatively gently. Feeling the brutality of Japanese soldiers, the film highlights how...
Hans-Eckart Eckhardt
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John Rabe: To the Führer of the German people. Chancellor Adolf Hitler. My Führer. As a loyal party member and upstanding German. I turn to you in a time of great need. The Japanese Imperial troops conquered the city of Nanking on December 12, 1937. Since then I have witnessed atrocious crimes against civilians. Please help to end this catastrophe and make an appeal to our Japanese allies in the name of humanity. With a German salute.
[Rabe signs the letter]
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John Rabe: Stop it! This is the safety zone. Get out and leave the women alone.
[Rabe switches to German and makes a Nazi salute]
John Rabe: We're Germans. Germans. We're Germans.
[Japanese officer aims his pistol at Rabe]
John Rabe: Help me out here, damn it!
Dr. Georg Rosen: [Rosen also makes a Nazi salute] Heil... Shitler. Heil Shitler.
John Rabe: [after resolving the situation] That's not funny.
Dr. Georg Rosen: We got through.
John Rabe: All the same, he is the Führer of the German people.
Dr. Georg Rosen: And shall I tell you what I don't find funny?
John Rabe: Yes what is it?
Dr. Georg Rosen: It also concerns the so-called Führer.
John Rabe: Listen here...
Dr. Georg Rosen: Friedrich Rosen, my father. An ambassador and foreign minister, forced to flee and die in China. Simply because my grandfather, Beethoven's best friend, no less, happened to be Jewish. My father couldn't die in the country he always lived for. That's not funny. Nor is my position as secretary. After years as embassy councillor. I should be glad to even be alive. Do you think that's funny?
[Rosen makes a Nazi salute]
Dr. Georg Rosen: Heil Shitler.
