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The Good Man of Nanking 1998

By John Rabe

  • Diaries, German Personal narratives, History, Nanking Massacre, Nanjing, Jiangsu Sheng, China, 1937

A unique and gripping document: the recently discovered diaries of a German businessman, John Rabe, who saved so many lives in the infamous siege of Nanking in 1937 that he is now honored as the Oskar Schindler of China.

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