1在南京沦陷前,拉贝匆匆从秦皇岛结束休假赶回南京。拉贝认为,自己在中国生存了几十年,这个国家的命运与自己已经无法再分割,没理由在这种时候充当一个外籍身份的懦夫,所以,他坚持留下。在日本飞机整天疯狂轰炸南京城内每一处目标时,大量平民丧失了庇护,拉贝偶然间发现,西门子公司一直所悬挂着的纳粹党旗能够起到保护作用,他当即打开公司大门让街上的上千百姓涌入,在纳粹旗下保全了性命。 Before the fall of Nanjing, Rabeh hurried back to Nanjing from Qinhuangdao on a holiday. Rabe believes that he has lived in China for decades and that the destiny of this country can no longer be divided with himself. There is no reason to act as a coward at this time as a foreign identity, so he insisted on leaving. As the Japanese aircraft frantically bombarded every single objective in the city of Nanjing during the day, a large number of civilians lost their asylum. Rabe occasionally discovered that the Nazi party flag that the Siemens Company had been hanging on had a protective effect. He immediately opened the door of the company to let the streets The influx of thousands of people saved their lives under the banner of the Nazis.