A Dane Saved As Many as 20,000 Chinese During the Rape of Nanking-- Part 1

From the September 24, 2015, Northwest Herald (Illinois) "  Man tells of brother's life-saving actions during Rape of Nanking" by Caitlin Swieca.

This story came about because a Chinese TV crew recently interviewed Ole Sindber,81, in Trout Valley, Illinois.  They were there to document what his half-brother Bernhard had done to save the lives of thousands of Chinese during the Japanese Rape of Nanking in the late 1930s.

Bernhard Sindberg died in 1983 and is regarded as a hero by the Chinese government for sheltering thousands of innocent Chinese citizens in a Danish-owned cement factory through the worst of the massacre in 1937 and 1938.

The Chinese government estimates that 300,000 people died in the first six weeks of the occupation and Sindberg may have saved as many as 20,000 lives, although estimates vary greatly.

The story is being documented by the China Jiangsu Broadcasting Corp. and will in a 10-part series dedicated to heroes of the massacre.

Ming Liu is the director of the documentary and contacted Ole Sindberg, a native Dane now living in Trout Valley, to tell of his brother's deeds.

--GreGen