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Foreigner Found to Help Protect Chinese from Nanjing Massacre
B. A. Sindperg, a Dane who worked in Nanjing, capital of east China's Jiangsu Province, in the 1930s, was among a group of foreigners who worked to protect Chinese civilians during the Nanjing Massacre in 1937.
This was discovered by Gao Xingzu, professor of history with Nanjing University while in an archive looking at material concerning the Anti-Japanese War (1937-1945).
Sindperg was working at the Jiangnan Cement Plant on the outskirts of Nanjing when war broke out.
Together with John D. Rabe, a representative of the Siemens Company in Nanjing, and some other foreigners, Sindperg helped pass on petitions of Chinese refugees to the Japanese Embassy in China. He also tried to send several Chinese injured by Japanese soldiers to hospitals in the city.
Gao said that several people are trying to locate the whereabouts of Sindperg in Denmark and his family members.
Historical records indicate that at least 300,000 Chinese were butchered and more than 20,000 women raped by Japanese invaders in December 1937, known as the "the Rape of Nanking" or the "Nanking Massacre".
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