HIST 295 Lecture Notes - Ger Toshav, Iron Guard, Vichy France
28 Nov 2012
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Countries discussed in wistrich"s chapter collaboration across europe . Holocaust wasn"t equally bad in every country. What was the signal for a high or low death rate: ancient traditions of anti-semitism indicates where things were going terribly wrong (generally, but there were exceptions) Sweden was neutral during the war: they profited from their neutrality. They would charge a fee for jews to seek refuge in their country: took in all the danish jews, and even allowed foreign born jews to apply for work visas. Finland was a nazi ally union of convenience: held off the soviet army. Joined hitler"s army when they invaded soviet russia: a democratic country (not totalitarian dictatorship!, had jews in their army, fighting alongside nazis in russia, would have a synagogue for their jewish soldiers, refused to hand over their jews. Norway: despite the brave fighting of their forces, norway succumbed to the.
