Standing amid atrocities: John Rabe and his record of Nanjing Massacre

Christoph Reinhardt, the great-grandson of John Rabe, a German remembered for protecting hundreds of thousands of Chinese civilians during the Nanjing Massacre in 1937, speaks during a candle-light vigil at the Memorial Hall of the Victims in Nanjing Massacre by Japanese Invaders in Nanjing, capital of east China's Jiangsu Province, Dec. 13, 2025. (Xinhua/Li Bo) "I want to witness these atrocities with my own eyes, so that I can later speak of them as an eyewitness. Such brutal crimes -- committ