My Cooter's History Blog has become about 80% World War II anyway, so I figured to start a blog specific to it, especially since we're commemorating its 70th anniversary and we are quickly losing this "Greatest Generation." The quote is taken from Pearl Harbor survivor Frank Curre, who was on the USS Tennessee that day. He died Dec. 7, 2011, seventy years to the day. His photo is below at right.
Thursday, August 1, 2013
Deaths: Saved Jews-- Part 2
Born in 1913, during World War II, Bertold Beitz saved hundreds of Jews at the oil fields he managed in occupied Poland by keeping them from being deported to concentration camps. He sometimes even went so far as to hide Jews at his home.
In August 1942, he saved 250 Jews from being deported to the Belzec Concentration Camp by claiming they were indispensable to production.
After the war, he said: "There was no anti-Fascism, no resistance. We watched from morning to evening as close as you can get what happening to the Jews.... When you see a woman with her child in her arms being shot, and you yourself have a child, then your response is bound to be completely different."
Quite a Man.
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