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Originally Posted by Street Pharmacist
In every documentary I've seen on the Holocaust, the most shocking things to me aren't the atrocities at the hands of the Germans as they're well explored, but the level of both complicity and participation in occupied countries. Stories from Eastern Europe where locals rounded up Jews they'd known forever to stand in front of a pit and be shot in front of the whole town. Absolutely scary how quickly compassion can disappear
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Vichy France was enthusiastic in their rounding up and deportations.
Ironically Italy under Mussolini refused to round up their Jews, it wasn't until Il Duce's government fell and the Germans took over that Italian Jews were killed.
Denmark almost as a nation decided to save its Jews and acted in a coordinated manner to spirit thousands of Jewish families away to the coast were the fishing fleet sailed them to Sweden.
On the whole I have little faith in humanity but every now and then we actually act like we have a soul.