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008 - FIXED-LENGTH DATA ELEMENTS--GENERAL INFORMATION |
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040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE |
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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
International Standard Book Number |
0375701974 |
020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
International Standard Book Number |
9780375701979 |
035 ## - SYSTEM CONTROL NUMBER |
System control number |
(OCoLC)43845079 |
041 1# - LANGUAGE CODE |
Language code of text/sound track or separate title |
eng |
Language code of original |
ger |
043 ## - GEOGRAPHIC AREA CODE |
Geographic area code |
a-cc-ku |
050 04 - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER |
Classification number |
DS796.N2 |
Item number |
R3313 2000 |
082 00 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER |
Classification number |
951.04/2 |
Edition number |
22 |
082 #4 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER |
Classification number |
951.136 |
Edition number |
21 |
090 ## - LOCALLY ASSIGNED LC-TYPE CALL NUMBER (OCLC); LOCAL CALL NUMBER (RLIN) |
Classification number (OCLC) (R) ; Classification number, CALL (RLIN) (NR) |
DS796.N2 |
Local cutter number (OCLC) ; Book number/undivided call number, CALL (RLIN) |
R3313 2000 |
100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
Personal name |
Rabe, John, |
Dates associated with a name |
1882-1950. |
240 10 - UNIFORM TITLE |
Uniform title |
Gute Deutsche von Nanking. |
Language of a work |
English |
245 14 - TITLE STATEMENT |
Title |
The good man of Nanking : |
Remainder of title |
the diaries of John Rabe / |
Statement of responsibility, etc. |
edited by Erwin Wickert ; translated from the German by John E. Woods. |
250 ## - EDITION STATEMENT |
Edition statement |
1st Vintage Books ed. |
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. |
Place of publication, distribution, etc. |
New York : |
Name of publisher, distributor, etc. |
Vintage Books : |
Date of publication, distribution, etc. |
2000. |
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
Extent |
xix, 294 p. : |
Other physical details |
ill. ; |
Dimensions |
21 cm. |
500 ## - GENERAL NOTE |
General note |
Includes maps of Nanking and Asia in 1938. |
504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE |
Bibliography, etc. note |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 289-294). |
505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE |
Formatted contents note |
How it began -- Things get serious -- Waiting for the attack -- The Japanese march in -- Christmas -- New year -- The diplomats return -- Closing down the Siemens Nanking branch -- The Japanese want to clear the safety zone -- The living Buddha -- Farewell -- Between the Nanking and Berlin diaries -- John Rabe's Berlin diary. |
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. |
Summary, etc. |
A unique and gripping document: the recently discovered diaries of a German businessman, John Rabe, who saved so many lives in the infamous siege of Nanking in 1937 that he is now honored as the Oskar Schindler of China. As the Japanese army closed in on the city and all foreigners were ordered to evacuate, Rabe felt it would shame him before his Chinese workers and dishonor the Fatherland if he abandoned them. Sending his wife to the north, he mobilized the remaining Westerners in Nanking and organized an "International Safety Zone" within which all unarmed Chinese were to be--by virtue of Germany's pact with Japan--guaranteed safety. As hundreds of thousands of Chinese streamed into the city, the Japanese army began torturing, raping, and massacring them in untold numbers. All that stood between the Chinese and certain slaughter was Rabe and his committee, and it is thought that he saved more than 250,000 lives. When the siege lifted in 1938 and Rabe finally felt able to leave, the Chinese gave him a banner that called him their Living Buddha, or Saint. Back home in Germany, he wrote Adolf Hitler to describe the Japanese atrocities he had witnessed. Two days later, the Gestapo arrested him. Miraculously, he was not sent to the camps. As it turned out, Rabe survived the war and the starvation that followed because the Chinese government learned that he was alive, and Madame Chiang Kai-shek had food parcels sent to him. This book is the journal he kept each night during those months of horror and the difficult years that followed. It is the record of an unpretentious hero who, when faced with the inhuman, refused to yield his ground. |
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
Topical term or geographic name entry element |
Nanking Massacre, Nanjing, Jiangsu Sheng, China, 1937 |
Form subdivision |
Personal narratives, German. |
651 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--GEOGRAPHIC NAME |
Geographic name |
Nanjing (Jiangsu Sheng, China) |
General subdivision |
History. |
600 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
Personal name |
Rabe, John, |
Dates associated with a name |
1882-1950 |
Form subdivision |
Diaries. |
700 1# - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
Personal name |
Wickert, Erwin, |
Dates associated with a name |
1915-2008. |
946 ## - LOCAL PROCESSING INFORMATION (OCLC) |
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c.1 Processed by Dave Lyons, 8/9/12. |
946 ## - LOCAL PROCESSING INFORMATION (OCLC) |
a |
c.2 Processed by Chu Kailu, 12/13/12. |
946 ## - LOCAL PROCESSING INFORMATION (OCLC) |
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Excellent condition. |
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