Japan Nanjing film says war criminals were martyrs

Reuters via Yahoo ^ | 11/26/07 | Olivier Fabre

[Little Ray]

One of the eyewitnesses was a NAZI businessman, John Rabe:

http://www.amazon.com/Good-Man-Nanking-Diaries-John/dp/037540211X
Rabe was a German businessman who saved the lives of 250,000 Chinese during the infamous siege of Nanking. But Rabe was also a member of the Nazi party and a man whose motto was “Right or wrong-my country.”
When the Japanese air raids began over Nanking, where Rabe was regional director of the German industrial giant Siemens, Rabe’s wife, along with most foreigners, evacuated the city. But Rabe stayed to protect his Chinese staff and co-workers; as he put it, “I cannot bring myself for now to betray the trust these people have put in me.” As the magnitude of the Japanese assault became apparent, Rabe, along with American doctors and missionaries, created an International Committee whose purpose was to set up a Neutral Zone where Chinese civilians could take refuge. Six hundred of the poorest Chinese were soon living in Rabe’s own house, symbolically protected by an enormous canvas painted with a swastika; thousands more took shelter in the arbitrary Neutral Zone that Rabe continually begged the Japanese to respect. Lacking food and medical supplies, Rabe was mobilized to continue his good works by the atrocities he witnessed; his descriptions of the sadistic rapes, torture and slaughter perpetrated by Japanese soldiers are chillingly vivid.

I wonder how they blew his testimony off?

[Eternal_Bear]

No one seems to care about the 80 million chinese murdered by Mao and his chicom thugs. no one was punished. No admissions were made. We trade with them as if nothing ever happened. Why?

[Abathar]

Good point, I have often thought of that myself.

[Little Ray]

I personally think that leaving the atrocities in the past is a healthy mindset. There are more important thing to do that wallow in one’s sins.
However, denying them, and canonizing the perpetrators, is just plain evil.

[Little Ray]

I watched a chop-sockey movie last night, Hero, starting Jet-Li.
It was a thinly disguised propaganda flick that said the Party had the right to kill any number of people in the name of “Our Land” and its enemies needed to recognize this fact.
I suppose the reason we still trade with ‘em is that the PRC killed 80 million of its own people, rather than invading someone else.

[puroresu]

You’re right.

[puroresu]

I'm as hostile to the Chinese regime as anyone, but I don't regard Hero as a propaganda film. It's a highly fictionalized and obviously fantasized historical epic, but it's generically patriotic, not communist.

I've got some good Chinese movies on my Freeper page that were banned by the commies or which somehow managed to slip through the cracks. The Blue Kite is an excellent film.

[piytar]

Well to be fair we have Americans who all but worship the Nazis and Hitler, and some of them make movies, too.

The real irony is the Japan did so much damage to the nationalists in China that they helped pave the way for the ChiComms, who are now a major threat to Japan...

[swmobuffalo]

bump

[ko_kyi]

I guess Japan has their own Michael Moore, and a subset of the population equally hungry for his spew.