Gautam Mukunda wrote:
>
> You know, I'm pretty sure I've actually read a couple
> of books on that rescue, and it still managed to slip
> my mind. This, may I point out, makes the rest of
> Europe look _worse_. See? It _was_ possible to
> rescue Europe's Jews.
>
But there's big difference between ferrying a
few jews over a small patch of sea, as the
Danes did, and having them cross hundreds of km
of occupied nazi territory, as the Poles should
have done.
> It damn well was possible to
> at least try. But they didn't even try,
> much less succeed.
>
I am not sure that they didn't _try_, because
we wouldn't know about it: a failure would
mean death for all of them.
I've read stories of Netherlanders that tried to
hid some jews in their house. They were eventually
caught, and all of them ended up in a death camp.
Alberto Monteiro
