ericbj on Tue, 30 Nov 2004 23:14:49 +0100 (CET) |
[Date Prev] [Date Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Date Index] [Thread Index]
<nettime> RE: Geert Wilders / Borders, borders, more borders |
> ... the popularity in the USA of a book like The Diary > of Anna Frank gave Holland the false reputation of > having been "right on" in its efforts to protect its > jewish population from the nazis, whereas in reality > collaboration was rife: 90% of Dutch jews were deported, > more than in any other european jewish population > outside of poland. All occupied countries had collaborators and Holland was no worse in this respect than elsewhere. The high incidence of deportation of Jews to the extermination camps was due to the collaboration of one man: the Dutch government's senior statistician, in charge of the census records. In contrast, deportations from France -- where there was a serious problem of collaboration thanks to Vichy ("the legal government" as a French lawyer once remarked to me) -- was, if memory serves me right, of the order of only 30%. The reason? The French general who offered to handle the census returns for the German occupiers did so in order to ensure the latter received as little useful information as possible and the French authorities in North Africa received a maximum, ensuring rapid mobilisation after the Liberation. Pressed by the Germans for lists of Jews he procrastinated on the grounds that his lists were not yet ready. In fact he was busily destroying the census returns which showed who was Jewish. He was to die in a concentration camp for this. Sorry I cannot give you more details, as my library is in southern France and I am in northern Thailand. For details, read "IBM and the Holocaust" Eric # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: majordomo@bbs.thing.net and "info nettime-l" in the msg body # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nettime@bbs.thing.net