re: #205 researchok

I read once that the people who risked their lives for Jews were not the university professors or philosophers, but rather, their neighbors, those who knew them best.

I like the sentiment, but this is a little bit off— mainly because at first so many of those university professors did help Jews, because they were their co-workers and friends. Quickly, however, the Nazis took over the universities and those professors that remained were the worst of the Quislings.

I think the important part of what you’re saying rings very true though; it wasn’t because they were university professors that they helped Jews, but out of friendship for colleagues. The same was done all over Germany and Poland by individuals in small, quiet heroic acts.

Also, we shouldn’t forget the White Rose.