http://www.thejc.com/news/world-news/112448/holocaust-writer-grabowski-faces-polish-fury
The truth is that almost every Nazi occupied nation helped murder their Jewish neighbors. Some like the French and the Dutch did it with gusto. But they love to make the holocaust a “German only” event. It wasn’t.
Maybe some Dutch....but don’t lump them all in there. My sister’s father-in-law narrowly escaped death because he refused to do what the Nazi’s asked of him and so he was imprisoned. He was marched naked in the streets and was scheduled to be sent to a labor camp until a friend risked his own life and moved the index card with the father-in-law’s name on it from one stack of cards of people to be shipped away to different stack of names.
A German family for a time hid the father in law and his wife from the Nazis.
It’s hard to think of a nicer more gentle soul that Villim....may he rest in peace.
True, the Austrians were even more hardcore anti-semites than even the Germans.
I take it that you had Dutch Family in the Netherlands during WW2?
Germany was not an island of antisemitism in a sea of European enlightenment. Antisemitism was strong throughout Europe from the middle ages onward. Slavic antisemitism was particularly strong.
There was a lot of silent approval of and some active participation in the Holocaust in Poland.
The outrage of Polish authorities on this subject reminds me SOMEWHAT (not exactly equivalent) of the outrage of the Turkish government when anyone mentions the Armenian Massacres.