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embarrassed
Kristoffer 2022-04-24 07:01:23
The most remarkable thing about "Rabe's Diary" is its historical value, or factual evidence. The diary inevitably adds Rabe's personal emotional factor, that is, if it is a movie, it cannot be influenced by the facts recorded in Rabe's personal diary. When making a movie, it should try to restore the historical facts. Such an international friend, what he has done is really touching, but it can make him more real, after all, it involves the emotional problems of the Chinese. What is incomprehensible is that as the leader of the Nazi Party, how can he bear some heavy responsibilities? Personally, I really feel that it should be reconsidered, and the good and the bad should not be judged because of looking for evidence!
Extended Reading
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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.