Re: CHAT: Support/Oppression of Conlanging

Christophe Grandsire scripsit:

> Of course not, he sent everyone to Germany. Why build expensive ovens when
> facilities exist already somewhere else? As for not killing anyone yet, the
> intention to kill is enough. And it was present in both stalinism and nazism.
In fact only about 10-15% of all Italian Jews were sent to concentration/
extermination camps, and virtually all of those after Mussolini's death.
Italy, like Denmark and Bulgaria, systematically resisted German
pressure to imprison or export their Jews -- not openly, as the Danes
did, but for the most part by misinterpreting or ignoring German orders.
Catholic priests, army officers, Fascist party members, and ordinary
citizens all did their bit.

Indeed, before the war the number of Jews in the Fascist party was essentially
proportional to their number in the Italian population as a whole.
This changed only in 1938 when Mussolini passed anti-Semitic legislation at
German insistence.

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