![]() ![]() ![]() Ranking entire nations in terms of niceness is probably an idea to be resisted: societies are too diverse for that. Were the Danes more courageous in opposing Nazi plans, or were they simply nicer people – like the Italians, who also managed to protect a large number of Jews from mass murder? Impoverished Jews, many of them in Amsterdam, were less assimilated, but they were not threatened either, until the Germans came. ![]() A reasonably assimilated Jewish middle-class was well established in both nations. There was anti-Jewish prejudice in both countries, but not, as Isaiah Berlin once nicely put it, "more than necessary". The relative degree of antisemitism does not offer a conclusive answer. ![]()
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