Posted on 10/04/2019 9:46:11 AM PDT by rktman
During WW II, the train systems of occupied countries were critical in carrying out the Nazi’s “Final Solution" regarding the Jews. The Dutch railroad system, Nederlandse Spoorwegen (NS), deported 107,000 Jews during the Nazi occupation, of whom 5,100 survived. A new Dutch book on the railroad in wartime states that 112 Dutch trains deported Jews from the main transit camp Westerbork, originally a prewar refugee camp, in the northeast Netherlands, to Nazi camps between June 1942 and August 1944. As in France, the railroad was paid a small amount by the Nazis for the transport to the German border where the Dutch crew was replaced by a German one. The trains, as Adolf Eichmann remarked, ran “smoothly,” and there was no sabotage revealed, if any was attempted.
The railroads got payment for each person carried on its cattle cars to their death.
In 1940 about 140,000 Jews, seemingly well integrated, lived in the Netherlands, including 75,000 in Amsterdam. The Netherlands had the largest proportion of its Jewish population, 76%, exterminated by the Nazis than any other Western European country. Less than 25% of Jews survived. One of those who died was Anne Frank who was deported first to Auschwitz and then to Bergen-Belsen, where she died from typhus on March 1, 1945.
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Doesn’t surprise me a bit!
Not one single Pole served as a guard at any of the camps. There were plenty of Ukrainian and Latvian guards, but no Poles. Why were the camps in Poland? Because that was where most of the Jews lived pre-war, and what was the point of building the camps farther away than they had to be?
What Polish Government? There was no Polish Government.
Any Pole caught assisting a Jew in any way, not only would be killed, but the rest of their family as well.
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