Excuse me, is there any historical story about 1 Xiaofenqiao's "Rabe's Former Residence"? Who is Rabe?

Rabe 1882 was born in Hamburg, Germany. His father is a captain. /kloc-When he was 0/6 years old, his father died of illness. After graduating from junior high school, Rabe interrupted his studies and went to the society to make a living. 1909, Rabe came to China, which he had been longing for for for a long time, and his fiancee Dora also came to Beijing, where they got married. Joined Siemens, Germany, and successively served as the manager of Beijing and Tianjin branches. 193 1 year 1 1 month, Rabe came to the capital Nanjing to develop his business and became the manager of Nanjing branch. He signed an agreement with Xie Jinsheng, dean of the Agricultural College of Jinling University, to build a house integrating office and residence and rent it to Rabe. The house is located at Xiaofenqiao 1 Guangzhou Road, with elegant and quiet environment. His career is booming, and the residents around him are very friendly and enthusiastic. Rabe lives and works very happily here.

The gunfire of the July 7th Incident broke Rabe's quiet life. 1in August, 937, the Japanese army began to shell Nanjing. Rabe was on holiday in Beidaihe, and he didn't come home all night. He built a bomb shelter in the yard for servants and nearby residents. 165438+ 10, he and some westerners set up a safe area, hoping to provide a shelter for refugees at the most dangerous moment of Nanjing's fall. He was promoted to the chairman of the safe area, and Rabe knew how heavy the burden was. He said: "With me as chairman, I should not hesitate any longer. The best youth in my life was spent happily in this country. My children and grandchildren were born here, and my career has been successful here. I have always been treated kindly by the people of China. "

There are 25 refugee shelters in the safe zone, and nearly 300,000 refugees have gathered. As the "executive mayor" in an extraordinary period, Rabe faced the same difficulties as Qian Shan. He used his Nazi identity to fight against the Japanese army, and repeatedly negotiated and protested with the Japanese consulate to prevent the Japanese army from wantonly invading and slaughtering; He designated his rented yard as a "Siemens" refugee shelter, and took in more than 600 residents nearby, including Ding Yongqing, Zong Youqin and Li Shizhen, all of whom were protected by Rabe. He wrote the famous Rabe Diary here, which recorded more than 500 tragedies of Japanese atrocities. He led his committee members to seek international assistance, raise funds and buy food and medicine. Especially after going through hardships, he got broad beans from Shanghai to prevent the spread of beriberi. The refugees bowed to him and called him a living Buddha. In order to show respect for Rabe, Pastor mccallum specially composed a song "Nanjing Refugee Chorus". The lyrics are bitter and humorous: we want broad beans for breakfast and broad beans for lunch. ...

1938 February, Rabe returned to Germany at the request of Siemens headquarters. He took China pilot Wang Guanghan, who was recuperating at home, as a servant, and took him safely to Shanghai, and then escorted him to Hongkong. After Rabe returned to Germany, he made five non-stop reports in Berlin, exposing Japanese atrocities in Nanjing with indignation. He showed the film of Japanese atrocities shot by Reverend John Magee, president of Nanjing Red Cross Society. He also sent an atrocity report to Hitler himself, hoping that Germany would quickly come forward to stop the inhuman atrocities still committed by its ally Japan. Therefore, he was persecuted by the Gestapo. After World War II, Rabe was treated unfairly because of his Nazi identity. In his most depressed days, in the desperate situation that his family starved to death, the villagers in Nanjing did not abandon him! Donations from Nanjing and food parcels seemed to fall from the sky, which rekindled his courage in life. In his later years, Rabe was troubled by the homesickness of Nanjing. 1950, Rabe died of a stroke in Berlin.

On Rabe's tombstone, a picture of eight diagrams with the traditional cultural connotation of China is depicted. In a cemetery far away in the United States, a tombstone is also engraved with the architectural design of China and the characters "Jinling Eternal Life", where Ms. vautrin of Jinling Women's University is buried. The American who saved countless women and children in China said at the last moment of her life, "If there is an afterlife, she will still serve China."

Known as "Schindler of Nanjing", the Nanjing Municipal Government has built Xiaofenqiao 1 where it lives into "Rabe's former residence".