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The Good Man of Nanking: The Diaries of John Rabe |
Author: John Rabe
Published: 2000-03-14 |
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 Remember Nanking and Pearl Harbor - There's a Reason for Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Like Anne Frank, whose diary remains a timeless testimonial to the horrors of the Holocaust, John Rabe kept a memorable diary that documented a horrific record of mass rape, murder and mutiliation committed by the Japanese toward the Chinese during WWII. And just as there are neo-Nazis who claim the Holocaust never happened and claim Anne Frank was fictional, so we have the Nanking massacre-deniers, primarily Japanese who claim that Rabe lied and that the massacre was an illusion. And yet it is common knowledge that the Japanese were, next to the Germans, excessively cruel and sadistic toward their enemies. Ask any surviving GI who had the misfortune of being in a POW camp run by Japanese. Strangely, the Japanese have no problem admitting that they bombed Pearl Harbor and killed thousands of American civilians, so why don't they accept the fact they raped and killed millions in Nanking? I'll read Rabe's book again on the anniversary of Hiroshima and Nagasaki -notwithstanding the pacifists (and those with short memories). The atom bomb was dropped on Japan for justifiable reasons. Truman probably didn't want any American civilians going through the same hell as the poor Chinese civilians did in Nanjing. And after you read this book, you'll see why.
 Japanese history
This is a topic that must be handled gently. We are dealing with peoples emotions and emotions are delicate things. In all wars there are men on both sides who commit crimes. Only a fool would deny that.
"The Good Man of Nanking" is generating a lot of heat; that is why I think it is a good 2nd book to read if you're Japanese, not a good first book. I highly recommend the book (not the DVD) "To End All Wars" by Earnest Gordon. The book was written by a Scottish Army officer who was a prisoner in a Japanese POW camp. After you've read that book then I'd read "The Good Man of Nanking". Everything begins with a first step, including coming to terms with a controversial and sometimes uncomfortable past.
Chinese Holocaust
With The Rape of Nanking by Iris Chang, this is essential reading for those who would like to know more about the Chinese Holocaust: millions of Chinese civilians murdered by the Japanese form 1931 on.
Such a great book
The book shows you what really happened in Nanking from a foreiger point of view. It's such a great book!! I have to salute to the author's courage and integrity.
The Japanese Nationalists just don't get it.
I came across this book when I'm translating first-person acounts of Nanjing Massacre survivors for a new documentary that's coming out in the US. I've read so many people raving about John Rabe, Minnie Vautrin and Father McGee, about how they saved the survivors' lives. I just don't get how there are so many Japanese still denying what had happened. How was it possible for the CCP to pay Rabe to make up stories like that? Some people are just unbelievable! I have several friends who did the JET program and taught English in Japan and they were shocked about how their students still thought Japan was a WWII victim. Many testimonies that I translated called John Rabe and Minnie Vautrin their saviors! Those are heart-wrenching stories, and heart-warming stories as far as how the foreigners in Nanjing really reached out for them. If you still can't open your eyes to the truth, go to the Nanjing Massacre Museum in Nanjing and see the grusome, disturbing photos for yourself - photos taken by American journalists. History is not there to invoke hatred. (Unless the hatred for some reason is there already, and then there's nothing you can do to change it.) History is there for us to learn from our past, so that the atrocity won't repeat itself one day. But if people are too stubborn or self-absorbed to acknowledge history, that's where the tragedy begins, all over again.
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