Chapter 27 Appendices Judgment of the Reconsideration Panel of the Allied Purge Nazi Tribunal Finding Rabe a Non-Nazi

Rabe, who now works as an interpreter and is sometimes hired temporarily by Siemens, lived in China for a long time and joined the National Socialist Workers Party in China in 1934.He established a German school in Nanjing at that time, and it was necessary to obtain the support of the German Empire, so he had to join the party. In 1935, John Rabe temporarily served as the head of the party's Nanjing local organization.The Germans in China at that time did not understand the evil purpose and criminal activities of the National Socialist Party, and the testimony of witnesses can confirm this.The Nanking Safety Zone was established when the Japanese broke through the defenses, and Rabe chaired the committee at the behest of the Americans and British.As chairman of the committee he appears to have kept the safe zone safe from Japanese bombing. In 1938, Rabe returned to Germany. On the way, he took the British "Bee" gunboat as a VIP to Shanghai.Rabe was arrested by the Gestapo for making several reports in Germany on the cruel and inhuman war practices of the Japanese, and was barred from further activities in this regard.During the war, Rabe's job was to look after Siemens staff abroad.

Alfred Hope and Albert Almbrewster were in China with Rabe and were not party members, both witnesses and statements obtained in lieu of sworn affidavits attest to all of the above In particular, the factors to be taken into account are that in 1934 the political and imperialist aims of the National Socialist Workers Party were unknown in China. In view of the above, and respecting the humanitarian and social views of the above-mentioned persons, the committee voted by a majority to support the proposal to designate them as non-Nazis.