re: #211 Obdicut

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.

The observation was meant to be more sweeping.

The Holocaust Memorial in Israel for example, recognizes the vast number of gentiles who aided Jews were mostly ‘regular folk’.