I read that by the time the war started that there were only 29,000 Jews in Germany. The first group to be killed were the handicapped. Jews though were considered as the enemy. German Jews had mostly emigrated under the pressure of Hitlers government so the Jewish problem only became real again as Germany invaded other countries. I had often wondered why the camps were not in Germany and I guess that is the reason. It is said that the poles were the most antisemitic race. Thinking I wonder how much of this hate was due to the Nazi party and there need for a solution in Poland.
As we all know not all the Jews were found by the Nazi party because there were none Jews people who were willing to risk their life for the Jews. Anne Frank being a famous example of a Jewess who live most of the war in hiding. Towards the end of the war she was captured and sent to a camp where she was killed.
professor Weiss an Israeli politician behind the project to to stop poverty among the Jewish war survivors, the people who initially worked the land and made Israel a reality yesterday said that if Anna Frank was alive she would not be entitled to the special pension of just over a thousand shekels a month ($200) as she was not in a camp or ghetto. While this is not true, and he knows it is not true it is a very striking point.
Tuesday, August 21, 2007
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