[rktman]

Interesting info. I'm sure some folks don't/didn't know this little piece of history. I was slightly aware but not to the extent described in the piece.

[TexasGator]

Germany invaded in 1940.

[Gay State Conservative]

There were more than few people...of all nationalities...who committed breathtaking crimes during WWII. There were just as surely more than a few people...of all nationalities...who acted with breathtaking bravery and decency.

Those who committed the crimes have been pretty effectively identified.That's also true of at least some of the brave and decent ones.

[dfwgator]

France gets a bad rap, but the fact is 75% of French Jewish Citizens survived the war, the highest percentage of any occupied country.

It was however, the non-Citizen Jews on French soil that the Vichy government was more than happy to allow the Nazis to take off of their hands.

[aspasia]

the argument that stolen arts belongs in museums where the public has access to it, not to the family that owned it

That's not an argument. Confiscation by any other name. The new Solomon solves a dispute over property: "It belongs to the public."

[colorado tanker]

Arthur Seyss-Inquart was a Jew-hating fiend. Not only did he aggressively deport Jews, after the Allies occupied part of the Netherlands in 1944 and it became clear the Dutch hated the Nazis and wanted the Allies to take the country he adopted a policy of deliberately starving the population. The result was the Hongerwinter or Hunger Winter.

[jjotto]

German Jews were less than 1% of the German population in the 1930s, and maybe 2% if everyone with any Jewish ancestor was counted. Most of Germany’s Jews left the country by 1939.

Nazi Jew-killing had to be international; they were never just worried about Jewish influence in Germany.

[Midwesterner53]

No Jews were deported from Denmark. How did they manage that?