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Occasionally, a few people (foreigners) did stand up for civilians, although in the scale of events, it did not have large impact. Perhaps the most peculiar of them is the story of John Rabe, "a Nazi hero".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Rabe



> “Nazi hero”

Persons are always kind. It is people that do horrible things.

Whether it’s the angry mob ready to stone Mary Magdalene or US soldiers wasting civilians at My Lai the principle is the same.

The idea that because someone is on the other team in a war he is a monster is wartime propaganda used to justify and convince good persons to commit atrocities.

There is another comment to this story where someone applies exactly this kind of thinking to the North Vietnamese.


Rabe is one of the most famous. When book "Rabe Dairy" was published in China years ago there were memorial ceremonies. There were few if not no mentions of Nazi background though. Chinese people remember those foreigners who help them during difficult time in the war against Japanese invasion. There was a movie about an India doctor. There are statues a Canadian doctor in a lot of famous medical schools for memory of him. His home town attracted many Chinese tourists every year.




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