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* In Denmark, the rescue of the Jews, basically ranks as one of the most courageous and inspired actions in World War 2. The whole country effectively refused to allow the Jews to be taken away to the death camps, most were able to escape to Sweden, who is neutral. No other occupied nation in Europe took such extensive steps to protect its Jewish population - Although many others (i.e. Oskar Schindler and thousands of Poles) also risked their lives to save people from the Holocaust. |
* In Denmark, the rescue of the Jews, basically ranks as one of the most courageous and inspired actions in World War 2. The whole country effectively refused to allow the Jews to be taken away to the death camps, most were able to escape to Sweden, who is neutral. No other occupied nation in Europe took such extensive steps to protect its Jewish population - Although many others (i.e. Oskar Schindler and thousands of Poles) also risked their lives to save people from the Holocaust. |
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* Albania, both the nations, the people, and as individuals, simply refused to permit the Nazis to carry out the genocide in their nation. ONE JEWISH FAMILY in the whole country were killed, other thousands were pouring in as refugees. The Albanians actually competed with each other for the privilege of saving Jews from the Nazis. |
* Albania, both the nations, the people, and as individuals, simply refused to permit the Nazis to carry out the genocide in their nation. ONE JEWISH FAMILY in the whole country were killed, other thousands were pouring in as refugees. The Albanians actually competed with each other for the privilege of saving Jews from the Nazis. |
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* The twelfth ''Sonderkommando'''s uprising (They're units of concentration camp inmates, mostly Jewish, who were forced to assist the SS in killing by disposing bodies from the gas chambers) in October 1944. They destroyed almost half of the crematoria of the Auschwitz extermination camp, seriously undermining the number of people the Nazis could still kill during the last months of the war, as they were never rebuilt. 200, who didn't die in the uprising itself were forced to strip, lie face down, and were shot in the back of the head in quick succession. A total of 451 members died that day. |
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* Raoul Wallenberg. |
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