To: LarryLied
The three best countries for jews to be in during WW2 were Italy(until the Germans took over);Finland;and Bulgaria.All Axis powers.Jews even served as commisioned officers in the Finnish Army on the Russian front and in the Winter War.Ironic isn't it?So-called centers of "civilization"like France,Belgium,etc.couldn't wait to collaborate with Nazis to round up Jews.The Finns and Bulgarians flatly refused to turn their Jewish citizens over.
To: steamroller
The Soviet Union was the best. The NKVD had the recuitment sign out. Franco saved 60,000 Jews. Any who made it across the border were safe.
To: steamroller
The three best countries for jews to be in during WW2 were Italy(until the Germans took over);I was wrong. You were right. Italy was the best. Margareta Sarfatti was the editor of Mussolini's fascist newspaper. Guido Jung was his finance minister. Guido Arias was Italian fascisms ideologue in chief. Toeplitz,one of the countries most prominent bankers, was a Mussolini supporter. Three senators--Ancona, A. Luria, T. Meyer--were Il Duce's sole economic advisors.A. Finzi, J. Pontremoli, A. Jarach, E. Jona and C. Sarfatti helped found Italian fasicms in 1919. Life was good until late in the 1930s when Hitler forced Mussolini to turn on his fellow fascists.
To: steamroller
Don't forget Denmark and Yugoslavia. By the way, I just read the new issue of Newsweek where there was an interesting blurb, not quite a full article, about a certain provincial town in which many Frenchmen saved Jews at great risk to themselves, so the French should not be demonized en masse.
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