The Swedes who told the world about the Holocaust

Daily Mail ^ | 11th January 2015 | Sara Malm

[the scotsman]

'On June 9, 1942, a speech was broadcast on the BBC that would change human history.

Władysław Sikorski, Poland's prime minister exiled in London, revealed that 700,000 Jews had been systematically murdered in brutal Nazi concentration camps, quarantined and executed en-masse in ghettos, and walked to their deaths in gas chambers.

This was the first time the world and the Allied forces had heard of the crimes of the Holocaust, a secret the Nazi leaders had been able to keep until now.

The information, a dossier of photographs and documents, had come to London from Poland via Stockholm, thanks to a group of Swedish men who had risked their lives to tell the world about the Nazi persecution of Polish Jews.'

[theBuckwheat]

Others knew long before that revelation and were not given sufficient voice by a complicit media, not to mention how the Roosevelt administration acted towards Jews who were under Nazi control.

[pbmaltzman]

Thank God that they had the courage to do the right thing and tell the world what was happening.

[Sherman Logan]

The full extent of the Nazis crimes were generally believed to be exaggerated till indisputable evidence became available towards the end of the war.

Partly this is because the crimes were so horrible it seemed reasonable that they couldn’t really be entirely true, and partly because war propaganda during WWI greatly exaggerated German atrocities to whip their population up for the fight.

Once burned, twice shy and all that.

[SpaceBar]

The brutal suppression and murder of a timid minority seventy years ago is being used as a truncheon of guilt over the heads of modern day Europe and America for not curtailing or reversing islamic immigration.

[ZULU]

Why are their descendants so blind to what is going on today in their own country to THEM under a NEW form of NAZIism?

[SpaceBar]

I get all moist and sentimental as anyone else about old nazi horror stories and tales of the heroic, but this is now, and the world is facing a real existential threat from islam. And they’re not harmless shop keepers and jewelers in Berlin.

[hosepipe]

[Irenic]

Interesting that there is only one comment to that article at teh dailmail. I thought perhaps it was the time—nope because other articles have minutes old comments popping up.