John Rbe The Importance Of Being A Hero

John Rabe died without the intention of becoming a hero. However, even without the goal of being a hero, many people remember him as one due to his actions of bravery during the Nanjing massacre. He helped defend China's land and those who fought for and live in china. What happened in Nanking was a massacre due to the unsettling amounts of Chinese killed. John Rabe should be remembered as a hero because of his major contributions during the fights. From 1937 through 1938, China had been a victim of not only many deaths, but rape and brutal torture as well. In the midst of heavy fighting, Japanese would still find time to, once a city was captured, take advantage of all that came with it. For example, Chiang was captured mid December and is known for being witness to the worst barbarity of the war. Japanese soldiers were turned loose to murder, rape, steal goods, and burn at will. It is one things to hear about horror going on, but it does not compare to seeing up close and personal as to what happened. When rabe was writing about his travel around the city he says, “It is not until we tour the city that we learn the extent of destruction. We come across corpses
Most often it is a person similar to you and your kind. When someone first looks at John Rabe they cannot look past the fact that he is a German nazi and is not seen as someone who can help, a foreign country. However, Rabe was one of them. He had lived in China for a few years and it was what he could call home. When China was in need he had filled the role of a savior. When writing about seeing the terror in the eyes of innocent women and children Rabe says, “Their one hope is that I, the ‘foreign devil’ will drive these evil spirits away” (Rabe 77). To them Rabe is the last hope of peace among their country. He being just a normal man had to help the lives of all that he