[Peter Libra]

Some figures.

Originally the Germans actually encouraged Jews to leave Austria. Some 130,000 left,about 30,000 to the United States.

Caught by the advent of war, 65,000 Austrian Jews were sent to concentration camps. Only 2,000 souls survived, this at the end of WW2. Some 800 Jews survived in Vienna itself, helped by Viennese.

Yeah, I guess the guilty conscience of these people is assuaged somewhat. I wonder how many Jews Irving killed? (Sarcasm).

Certain of the Europeans do not fool me- for I know what THEY did. The amount of Austrians who SAID they hid a Jew in the war,I believe, is of somewhat large,very large, proportions.

[Fiji Hill]

In his bestseller Not Peace, But a Sword (1939), Vincent Sheean, an authoritative, if somewhat left-leaning journalist, provides a riveting description of the plight of Vienna's Jews in the months following the Anschluss and of the difficulties they faced in attempting to flee the Nazis. Given the difficulty Jews faced in obtaining exit visas from the Reich and entry visas to other countries, it's a wonder that so many were able to escape.