At 12:53 AM 4/24/2002 -0400, Gautam wrote: ><snipped> >Not true. Unless this is an urban legend, AFAIK there was some king >in an occupied country that wore a six-pointed star when the nazis >made all jews wear it in public. > >Also, even if there were individuals in each country that liked the killing, >there were also individuals who opposed the killing, even in Germany >or Poland or France. > >Alberto Monteiro > >Me: >It's an urban legend. The six-pointed star thing never happened. If only >it had. And yes, no one is denying that there were individuals who opposed >the killing. Oskar Schindler was a Nazi party member in good standing, for >goodness sake. The point is that the vast mass of the population of these >countries not only did nothing - they participated with some eagerness. The >Vichy France government, for example, _helped_ the Germans round up France's >Jews and shipped them off to death camps. Not concentration camps, btw. >Concentration camps were invented by the British during the Boer War. The >German contribution to the roster of man's inhumanity to man is death camps, >like Buchenwald and Bergen-Belsen. They really are what make the Shoah so >unique. Even Stalin and Mao did not industrialize death to such an extent. >Only Pol Pot probably came close. > >Gautam
Denmark's resistance movement was able to spirit its Jewish population to safety in Sweden. Admittedly, Denmark had a small Jewish population (less than 10k) which may account for the success of the operation, but that does not detract from their achievment. That aside, there was virtually no organized attempt by occupied or exiled governments to safeguard their Jewish citizens. john
