ext_109080 ([identity profile] sildra.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] meanfreepath 2010-06-01 08:24 am (UTC)

Also, keep in mind that it wasn't just the Nazis who shipped the Jews off to concentration camps. There were some countries who tried very hard to protect their Jews. Some countries stood passively by, or made only token protests, when the Nazis demanded that the Jews be shipped to concentration camps or killed. But there were some countries who volunteered to ship their Jews to concentration camps before the Nazis even asked, or even orchestrated their own local Holocausts based on the Nazi model. Unlike Germany, who've had their noses rubbed in it, these countries have never really been forced to face what they did, or the underlying hatred that caused them to do it.

In those countries, I find it hard to imagine that Jews in modern times would be treated any better than the Romany currently are, if they had remained there.

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