(250816) — HEIDELBERG, Aug. 16, 2025 (Xinhua) — This picture taken on Aug. 7, 2025 reveals the brand of John Rabe Communication Center in Heidelberg, Germany. John Rabe Communication Center is devoted to commemorating John Rabe for his position in defending civilians in the course of the Nanjing Massacre in 1937, an atrocity dedicated throughout Japan’s warfare of aggression in opposition to China. During the Nanjing Massacre in 1937, John Rabe, a then consultant of Siemens within the war-ravaged Chinese metropolis Nanjing, arrange a global security zone with different foreigners, and saved the lives of round 250,000 Chinese folks between 1937 and 1938 from Japanese invaders.
The middle was established by Thomas Rabe, grandson of John Rabe, and his spouse in 2002. Over the years, Thomas Rabe has devoted himself to compiling over 20 volumes of wartime diaries written by his grandfather. These diaries have grow to be invaluable historic sources for analysis on the Nanjing Massacre. (Xinhua/Zhang Fan)