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 (DIR) Post #AWibyijJc0F8aMR160 by FediThing@tech.lgbt
       2023-06-15T12:00:17Z
       
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       Just reading a Wikipedia article on the Nazi occupation of France. There is a heck of a paragraph quoted from "Occupation: The Ordeal of France" (1999) by Ian Ousby:"There was no sign of public opposition to (anti-Jewish laws), or even widespread unease at the direction in which events were heading ... Many people, perhaps even most people, were indifferent. In the autumn of 1940 they had other things to think about; later they could find little room for fellow-feeling or concern for the public good in their own struggle to survive. What happened to the Jews were a secondary matter; it was beyond their immediate affairs, it belonged to that realm of the 'political' which they could no longer control or even bring themselves to follow with much interest."This is surely something of what we see today with people saying they don't like to "get political" when a clear human rights violation is brought to their attention.#HumanRights #Apathy #Nazis #Politics
       
 (DIR) Post #AWibyk3ChXkKgKkPjc by FediThing@tech.lgbt
       2023-06-15T12:03:52Z
       
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       The article itself is about the French Resistance, the active minority who would not accept Nazi occupation or Nazism, and did everything they could to stop it:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_ResistanceThey succeeded in the end, but it must have been a very difficult five years for them when it seemed like there would be no end to it.