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After 1939, Shanghai was the last and only resort to find safe haven from the Nazis, though not that safe either, as the film shows. This was due to Shanghai\u0027s status as a free port not requiring entry papers, and the relative tolerance of the Japanese occupiers, who, far from being saviors, resisted their Grand Ally\u0027s (Germany) demand to exterminate the Jews, and even prevented the actions of the Nazi \u0022Butcher of Warsaw\u0022 who was assigned to liquidate the Shanghai Jews. After the Communist takeover of China, all traces of the Jews\u0027 existence, including a Jewish cemetery with 2,000 graves, were razed. 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