And Denmark , Sweden, Hungary, Finland, Bulgaria...
Permit me to amend my charge, and to clarify. Rather than saying “people OF the occupied countries”, I should have said “(some) people IN the occupied countries”. Plus, being occupied, complicity in the atrocities cannot fairly be attributed as a policy of their governments.
The same cannot be said of the United States, Britain and Switzerland, all of whom turned their backs on Jews who did manage to escape Europe.
I see.
I didn’t know that about Switzerland; I thought they took some refugees in. My understanding is that after the war they simply kept property of people that had died, rather than pass it along to next of kin; I don’t know how that was resolved.
At the time these countries were closing the door on Jewish refugees, I don’t think they had any idea as to what was going to happen. I would think the (very public) Nuremberg Laws of the 1930s would have been sufficient to let the people in anyway. 75 years later, I’d love to know what went on in back-room discussions that led to those decisions.