Text 1848, 64 rader
Skriven 2009-12-21 13:25:14 av Ward Dossche (2:292/854)
   Kommentar till text 1847 av Björn Felten (2:203/2)
Ärende: Re: The Evil That Men Do
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BF> Was it Hitler, Eichman or any of the other high ranking Nazis, or was
BF> it a few suddenly promoted low-lives who suddenly got more power than
BF> their petty minds and characters deserved?
 
... or were it the participants of the 1938 Conference of Evian who devided the
world into 2 parts: places were jews could not live (Nazi territory) and places
where they could not enter.
 
In alphabetical order ...
 
Argentina
Australia
Belgium
Bolivia
Brazil
Canada
Chile
Colombia
Costa Rica
Cuba
Denmark
Dominican Republic
Ecuador
France
Guatemala
Haiti
Honduras
Ireland
Mexico
Netherlands
New Zealand
Nicaragua
Norway
Panama
Paraguay
Peru
Sweden
Switzerland
United Kingdom
United States
Uruguay
Venezuela
 
Only the Dominican Republic offered sanctuary for 100,000 people.
 
One country said "None are too many" refering to the number of refugees they
would accept. Another "There is no racial issue now and we don't want to import
one".
 
The countries above bear a collective guilt for the Holocaust to happen, they
may not have prevented it but many could have been saved and the final tally
would not have been 6 million.
 
When I started high-school in 1962 1/3 of my class were Jewish. For me the war
stories were old stuff my parents talked about (although at that moment it was
only 17 years past), but these kids were the first generation born from the
survivors. They were fed "Holocaust" for breakfast, lunch and dinner. They
acted as a very closed group, do not trust an outsider, do not help an outsider
... not even schoolwork. I did not understand then, but I do now.
 
 \%/@rd

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