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From: keithnospoofsplease@demon.co.uk
Eunometic wrote:
> On Oct 18, 1:17 pm, "David E. Powell"
> wrote:
>> OK I guess it isn't a gimmick with this guy. (Mark.)
>>
>> Germany and China had an alliance of cooperation that predated the
>> alliance with Japan. It was probably one of the reasons why a German
>> Doctor at Nanking who tried to help Chinese civilians and then tried
>> to get his government to sanction Japan after the massacre there was
>> shocked when Hitler rejected his attempt.
>
> John Rabe was a full Nazi party member, he was a seniour manager of
> the Siemens Electrical engineering company in China.
>
> He created the Nanking Safety Zone, plastered it with Nazi Swastikas,
> to keep the Japanese out. He saved thousands of chinese lives despite
> this
> may women within the zone were raped and sometimes murdered. At one
> point he confronted some Japanese soldiers intent on no-good and
> forced them
> to climb out the way they came in.
>
> He was regarded as 'naive' but he wrote letters to Chancellor Hitler
> asking for his intercesion on behalf of the Chinese.
>
Which of course didn't get to Hitler as they were intercepted by the
Gestapo. They instructed Siemens to recall him from Nanking
so as not to jeopardize their relationship with the Japanese.
On his return to Germany he was arrested and interrogated by
before being threatened with being sent to a political
re-education camp. Siemens managed to get him released on
the condition that he refrained from speaking or writing
on the subject.
The German state was quite sanguine with mass murder being
ardent practioners of the art. I suspect that any 'horror'
they experienced was at the inefficiency of the Japanese methods.
Keith
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