Last updated: 12/07/2019

• How does Rabe characterize the activities of the International Safety Zone and his own role as chairman?
• How does Rabe evaluate the activities and behaviour of the Japanese and the Chinese in Nanjing?
• How do Rabe’s accounts differ from those by other foreigners, by Chinese, and by Japanese who were in Nanjing in 1937/38? How do we account for these differences?
• How did Rabe reflect upon his time in China after his return to Germany in 1938?
• How and why do the two versions of the diaries differ?