Yeah, this stuff becomes complicated w stories like this - Rabe was in a position to do what he did bc he was a Nazi @RoonMian
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I’m willing to grant these guys an exemption from the punch-a-Nazi rule.
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that's what makes it complex though - Schindler wasn't a "real" Nazi though, before the war, also not known as a great guy
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he genuinely hoped to make a quick buck running Nazi slave labor factories, wasn't ideologically antisemitic
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and actually realizing his decision to take or reject workers was life-or-death seems to have fundamentally changed him
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Rabe really was a Nazi, he idolized Hitler
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but like with Schindler when they came for Chinese ppl he personally knew and worked with he couldn't stomach it
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it's funny bc even with his overwhelming disgust at Nanjing he never spoke up about German atrocities
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after the war he must've heard about the Holocaust but there's no evidence he cared or changed his mind
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well look at Sugihara - a genuinely good dude, he lost a really good job in China bc he quit in disgust
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he hated the Imperial Japanese Army and their use of slave labor
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but that wasn't enough to make him actually quit the government, or turn against Japan
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