John Rabe is a 2009 biographical film directed by Florian Gallenberger, based on John Rabe's published wartime diaries. An international co-production between Germany, China and France, the film follows Rabe, a German businessman who used his Nazi Party membership to create a protective International Safety Zone in Nanjing, China, helping to save over 200,000 Chinese from the Nanjing Massacre in late 1937 and early 1938.