Thursday, December 17, 2009

O movimento não-violento que deteve (em parte) os exércitos de Hitler

Danish, Norwegian, and Dutch resistance to Nazism from 1940 to 1945 was
pronounced and fairly successful. In Norway, for example, teachers refused to
promote fascism in the schools. For this, the Nazis imprisoned a thousand
teachers. But, the remaining teachers stood firm, giving anti-fascist
instruction to children and teaching in their homes. This policy made the
pro-fascist Quisling government so unpopular that it eventually released all of
the imprisoned teachers and dropped its attempt to dominate the schools. … In
Copenhagen, Danes used a general strike to liberalize martial law. …

But, surely the most amazing but widely neglected case of nonviolent resistance
against Nazi Germany was the protection of Jews and other persecuted minorities
from deportation, imprisonment, and murder. … Gene Sharp shows how the nations
which nonviolently resisted National Socialist racial persecutions saved almost
all of their Jews, while Jews in other Nazi-controlled nations were vastly more
likely to be placed in concentration camps and killed. The effort to arrest
Norway’s seventeen hundred Jews sparked internal resistance and protest
resignations; most of the Norwegian Jews fled to Sweden. … When Himmler tried to
crack down on Danish Jews, the Danes thwarted his efforts. Not only did the
Danish government and people resist – through bureaucratic slowdowns and
noncooperation – but, surprisingly, the German commander in Denmark also refused to help organize Jewish deportations. This prompted Himmler to import special
troops to arrest Jews. But, in the end almost all Danish Jews escaped unharmed.

Acerca dos judeus na Dinamarca - li algures que toda a gente na Dinamarca começou a usar a estrela amarela, tornando impossivel identificar os judeus, mas afinal é boato (embora "incorrecto nos detalhes, mas correcto no espírito").

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