Katje
rich
richard.romeo at gmail.com
Thu May 21 12:32:31 CDT 2009
So, Jews are negotiable. Every bit as negotiable as cigarettes, cunt,
or Hershey bars.--GR
In the Netherlands there's a figure that gives an indication of the
extent of denunciation. The country had an authority that hunted Jews
on behalf of the Nazis and that listed the property of Jews who had
gone into hiding or already been deported. The "Household goods
registry office" paid 7.50 guilders for every Jew who could be located
-- that's about €40 in today's money. Dutch journalist Ad van Liempt
has analyzed historical records and estimated that between March and
June 1943 alone, more than 6,800 Jews were tracked down in this way,
and that at least 54 people had taken part in this hunt once or even
several times. "Most of them made this their main occupation for
months," he says.
The head of the unit was a car mechanic called Wim Henneicke who
evidently had good connections in the Amsterdam underworld. He built
up an extensive network of informants who told him where Jews were
hiding. Some 100,000 Jews from the Netherlands were murdered in
concentration camps, a far greater proportion than in Belgium or
France.
http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/0,1518,625824,00.html
(this article has really pissed off the Poles by the way)
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