Hero American tourist and model reveals extent of facial injuries suffered while defending two women in Germany

The American tourist stabbed defending two women from vicious thugs on a tram in Germany revealed he was nearly blinded from the attack – but declared he’ll wear his scars with “pride” in his first interview since the frightening ordeal.

“I felt the man drag his knife across my face and cut through my nose. But I will wear my scar with pride,” 21-year-old John Rudat told journalist Julian Reichelt.

“I came so close to losing my eyesight,” he added. “What I did, I would have done for anyone, of any skin color.”

Rudat, a model from upstate New York, remains hospitalized after the Sunday attack in Dresden, where he intervened as a locally-known drug dealer and one of his cronies were accosting the women.

“No one else stepped in to help her. For many Germans, knife violence has become everyday life. People are afraid because friends have been attacked, injured, even killed.”

Rudat was in Germany visiting his former home-stay family from his days doing a foreign exchange, and said the city seemed more dangerous since he’d last been.

“I was in Germany in 2022. It felt safer back then. Now it feels more, well, dangerous. The problem has been ignored too long,” Rudat said.