It is over 75 years since the end of World War II. When the advancing allied forces liberated the German concentration camps the full horror of the Nazi’s “Final Solution” to what they called the “Jewish problem” was exposed. There was world-wide sympathy for the Jews (and others) who suff…
World War II is generally viewed as the glorious victory of good over evil. Hitler’s Nazi Germany was defeated and the Jews were liberated from the concentration camps. But the reality is not so comforting. The conflict provided the opportunity to plunder the Jews and strip them of all tha…
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The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is widely regarded as an independent and neutral organisation, however, during the Holocaust, the ICRC failed to protect Jews and, following World War II, it worked with the Vatican to protect Nazi war criminals and collaborators.1
The…
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Would you rather keep your children with you, knowing it meant putting their lives in danger, or send them away to safety, knowing you may never see them again? This was the terrible choice that many Jewish parents in Nazi Germany faced. It must have been painfully clear to them what was looming in …
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