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Poll: One-Third of Americans Would Not Hide Jew During Holocaust
INN ^ | 9/27/2015, 2:57 PM | Cynthia Blank

Posted on 09/28/2015 8:05:17 AM PDT by Olog-hai

Nearly one-third of American adults, if alive during the Holocaust, would refuse to shelter a Jew from the Nazis, a recent poll found.

According to the Hollywood Reporter, the poll was conducted as part of a unique marketing ploy to promote the digital release of Return to the Hiding Place, which tells the story of a group of Christians who hid Jews during World War II. […]

Barna Research conducted the poll, asking 1,000 Americans to “think back to World War II when Jews in Europe were forced into concentration camps and many were killed by the Nazis.” […]

Sixty-nine percent said they would agree to risk their lives to hide Jews, while 31 percent said they would not. …

(Excerpt) Read more at israelnationalnews.com ...


TOPICS: History; Religion; Society
KEYWORDS: holocaust; theholocaust
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To: Olog-hai; All

Last sentences are interesting:

According to an analysis of the data, males were more likely than females to shelter Jews, as were married people and homosexuals over singles and heterosexuals, respectively.

In addition, religious people were more likely to answer yes than secular people, as were Southerners over those from the Northeast.

I know a pair of Lesbians who are very conservative who have said that it might come to hiding Jews and Christians before it is all over.


21 posted on 09/28/2015 8:44:18 AM PDT by robowombat
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To: Blue Jays

Wow, I love these stories of heroism during the holocaust. Where can I learn more of this story. I am sure there are many more that have not been told yet.


22 posted on 09/28/2015 8:46:08 AM PDT by annieokie
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To: annieokie

And that is why this exists..

A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.


23 posted on 09/28/2015 8:49:55 AM PDT by Bidimus1
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During WW II, the 275 Jews of the Greek island of Zakynthos, however, survived when the island’s mayor, Carrer, was presented with the German order to hand over a list of Jews, Metropolitan Bishop Chrysostomos of Zakynthos returned to the Germans with a list of two names; his and the mayor’s. They did this assuming they would be executed. They were executed.

There are multiple articles about what happened then.


24 posted on 09/28/2015 8:52:22 AM PDT by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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To: KC_Lion

What a sad statement about Americans.


25 posted on 09/28/2015 9:02:50 AM PDT by MeganC (The Republic of The United States of America: 7/4/1776 to 6/26/2015 R.I.P.)
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To: robowombat

“I know a pair of Lesbians who are very conservative who have said that it might come to hiding Jews and Christians before it is all over.”

That would make an interesting plot twist for a movie.


26 posted on 09/28/2015 9:11:13 AM PDT by PLMerite ("The issue is never the issue. The issue is the Revolution.")
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To: longtermmemmory

What a compelling story!


27 posted on 09/28/2015 9:12:13 AM PDT by T-Bone Texan (The economic collapse is imminent. Buy staple food and OTC meds now, before prices skyrocket.)
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To: PLMerite

Yes since they are both descendants of John Bell Hood , one is from Texas and the other from Colorado.


28 posted on 09/28/2015 9:13:26 AM PDT by robowombat
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To: Olog-hai
the poll was conducted as part of a unique marketing ploy to promote the digital release of Return to the Hiding Place...

This is what passes for news nowadays; marketing ploys and project placement masquerading as "news".

29 posted on 09/28/2015 9:16:25 AM PDT by Flick Lives (One should not attend even the end of the world without a good breakfast. -- Heinlein)
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To: PastorBooks
I’ve heard 1/3 of the colonists were for independence from Britain, 1/3 were followers and 1/3 were crown loyalists.

The problem 1/3... I’m not surprised.

Not the same 1/3; rebellion is now taboo in a country founded by it, and for good reason. Rebellion is an unsustainable model, as the French learned.

30 posted on 09/28/2015 9:16:35 AM PDT by af_vet_1981 (The bus came by and I got on, That's when it all began.)
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To: Olog-hai
Sixty-nine percent said they would agree to risk their lives to hide Jews, while 31 percent said they would not.

I'll bet that 69% is a much higher % than the german population that actually helped the Jews when it was not just a question.

The % that actually helped was probably less than one percent {or there would never have been 6 million Jews butchered while most germans pretended to "know nothing" like sgt. shultz}.


31 posted on 09/28/2015 9:31:52 AM PDT by USS Alaska (Exterminate the terrorist savages, everywhere.)
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To: Attention Surplus Disorder

It’s easy to say what one would do in that situation with the benefit of hindsight, and from the comfort of their current situation.

I think very few have any idea how they would respond in such a situation. I’ll take a huge grain of salt with anyone who says they would have resisted the Nazis had they been in that situation.


32 posted on 09/28/2015 9:34:19 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: TribalPrincess2U

I think the Milgram Experiment revealed a lot about how people would act.


33 posted on 09/28/2015 9:35:07 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: dfwgator

Totally agree, that’s why I thought the question kind of offensively meaningless.

Americans today have utterly no idea what Americans of 70 and 80 years ago went through, with the Depression, the dustbowl, and WW2. Even those events are arguably lightweight compared to having a brutal, invading army take over your country, station themselves anywhere they wish, take whatever they want, and kill whomever they want while people you have known and seen for years are starving to death in the streets.


34 posted on 09/28/2015 9:51:25 AM PDT by Attention Surplus Disorder (This space for rent.)
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To: Olog-hai
Sixty-nine percent said they would agree to risk their lives to hide Jews, while 31 percent said they would not. …

I' bet that most of that 31% are democRATs/socialists/Marxists.

5.56mm

35 posted on 09/28/2015 9:57:10 AM PDT by M Kehoe
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To: dfwgator
There is a reason why Maximillian Kolbe is saint. I am amazed at the heroism of so many people during the Holocaust. Volunteering to die in another person's place at Auschwitz is almost beyond comprehension. I am also not surprised by the story of a pastor who's church happened to be along the railroad tracks for the trains going to Auschwitz. The trains tended to slow up right by his church and the screams and cries for help began to disrupt the service. He instructed the choir to sing louder so they wouldn't have to hear the people trapped on the trains. I tend to think that without divine intervention I too would be a singer in the choir. So I completely agree people have no idea what they would ever do in that situation.
36 posted on 09/28/2015 10:29:17 AM PDT by freefdny
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To: reed13k

I’m pretty sure I’m with you.

Everything else being equal I’d rather be running arms to those willing and able to defend themselves than providing shelter to same.

What was the concentration camp that had the revolt? Sobibor?


37 posted on 09/28/2015 10:35:13 AM PDT by tanknetter
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To: MeganC

1/3rd said they wouldn’t help.

2/3rds said they WOULD.

There are 330 million Americans. Extrapolate that to the entire population. The number is, at face value, uplifting.


38 posted on 09/28/2015 10:40:26 AM PDT by tanknetter
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To: tanknetter; All

Treblinka


39 posted on 09/28/2015 10:45:47 AM PDT by notdownwidems (Washington DC has become the enemy of free people everywhere)
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To: freefdny

“I am also not surprised by the story of a pastor who’s church happened to be along the railroad tracks for the trains going to Auschwitz.”

Do you know of a link?


40 posted on 09/28/2015 11:47:36 AM PDT by PastorBooks
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