Arthur Cordell wrote: > Now, now. Swiss law was such that good people really couldn't help the > refugees. In fact Swiss law was aimed against granting asylum.
If that was true, then I wonder why... > During World War II, Switzerland officially took in about 300,000 refugees > but it turned away at least 20,000 others, most of them Jewish. ...as your forwarded NYT article says. Indeed, on a per-capita basis, Switzerland took in many more Jewish refugees than the USA (which rejected them by the shipload) did, although the USA was in a much better position (more food and space, and not stuck in between the Axis powers) to take them in, and although the Jewish community of Zurich _asked_ the Swiss gov't to _reject_ Jewish refugees !! (better give them only the choice between Palestine and death, to achieve the zionist goals, you know..) While most other European countries were busy denouncing their Jews or even persecuting them and helping the occupiers to deport them to the concentration camps, Switzerland not only gave a safe haven to its residing Jews, but also took in several tens of thousands of foreign Jews, despite extreme shortages of food and other basic necessities, and although doing so was a provocation to the neighboring Axis powers. But the "thanks" we get is petty libel about "anti-Semitism". With so much ungratefulness, maybe at some point these injust allegations might become a self-fulfilling prophecy? > ''The refugee policy of our authorities contributed to the most atrocious of > Nazi objectives -- the Holocaust,'' said a Swiss historian, Jean-Francois > Bergier, who led the inquiry. Bergier is a bad joke of a historian. When Bergier was confronted with two substantial lies found in the preliminary reports, he replied in an interview that he can't say anything about this because he doesn't have sufficient knowledge about these claims. So much for the scientific quality of this "leading historian"! He doesn't even know the bases of his own reports. The facts don't matter for him anyway because his verdict was made in advance. Chris ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ SpamWall: Mail to this addy is deleted unread unless it contains the keyword "igve". _______________________________________________ Futurework mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://fes.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework
