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John Rabe is nominated as the chairman of the international committee, since he is a German "ally" of the Japanese. The committee meets, though with the initial reluctance of Dr. Robert O. Wilson , the American head doctor of a local hospital, who harbors ideological antipathy towards the German "Nazi" Rabe.
John and Dora Rabe autograph signatures, Nanjing, 22 May 1932. John Heinrich Detlef Rabe (23 November 1882 – 5 January 1950) was a German businessman and Nazi Party member best known for his efforts to stop war crimes during the Japanese Nanjing Massacre (formerly romanized as Nanking) and his work to protect and help Chinese civilians during the massacre that ensued.
Evan Peters, Sarah Paulson, and Lily Rabe have appeared in the most seasons with 9 appearances each. This is closely followed by Frances Conroy and Denis O'Hare who have both appeared in 8 seasons each. Peters' has portrayed the most characters across the show with 16, followed by Paulson who has portrayed 12.
In 2007, Gallenberger began production of a Chinese-French-German biopictorial film on the wartime experiences of John Rabe, a German businessman who used his Nazi party membership to establish a Safety Zone in Nanjing and save over 200,000 Chinese from the Nanjing massacre during the Second Sino-Japanese War.
The last refugee camps were closed in May 1938. John Rabe and his International Committee were credited with saving 200,000–250,000 lives despite the ongoing massacre. [5] [6] After George Ashmore Fitch departed, Hubert Lafayette Sone was elected Administrative Director of the Nanking International Relief Committee. [7]
John Paisley (born 1938) is a ... His most significant recent role was as John Rabe in the 2009 movie City of Life and Death. [4] ... John Paisley at IMDb This page ...
The Good Man of Nanking: The Diaries of John Rabe is a collection of the personal journals of John Rabe, a German businessman who lived in Nanjing at the time of the Nanjing Massacre in 1937–1938. The book contains the diaries that Rabe kept during the Nanjing Massacre, writing from his personal experience and observation of the events that ...
Zhang worked with German director Florian Gallenberger in the film John Rabe (2008), where she plays a college student whose family suffers in the Japanese invasion of Nanjing. She then starred in Ann Hui's film Night and Fog, a social commentary film which sheds light on Hong Kong immigrants from China. Her portrayal of the protagonist Ling, a ...