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Article: A tiny light can stave off the darkness
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- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)
- Article date:
- December 25, 1996
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CopyrightCopyright 1996 The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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In case you begin to wonder, yes, this is a Christmas column.
The International Red Cross has released documents from its World
War II files showing the organization knew at the time that what
we've come to know as the Holocaust was under way in Nazi
concentration camps.
The Red Cross kept quiet through the war. It feared that raising
the alarm would compromise its neutrality and end its ability to
inspect prisoner of war camps.
See? A Christmas column.
Here and there in Hungary, Romania the Red Cross did manage to
save thousands of Jewish lives quietly where opportunity occurred.
The Red Cross was not alone in silence, or in reasoning that the
silence might serve some good. Holocaust ...