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From: martillo@ihuxt.UUCP (Yehoyaqim Martillo)
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Subject: Re: Humanism, Christianity and Nazism
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Date: Thu, 3-May-84 11:51:00 EDT
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Democracy or Avowed Populism in a government correlated negatively with a
government's willingness to help Jews.

The Western democracies feared popular hostility toward aiding Jews.

Stalin, Mussolini, Franco, the King of Tunis, and Emperor Hirohito did not
have to worry about public opinion.

On the other hand, Hitler had been democratically elected and antisemitism
was probably the most popular Nazi program.

Interestingly, my grandfather, who had been a member of the Sefardic
Jewish community of Vienna,  took his family out of Austria after WWI
because the emperor had been deposed and Austria was supposed to become a
democracy.  My grandfather felt a democratic Austria would democratically
do away with its Jews.

I just read an article in Sephardi World which stated this feeling had
been common among Austrian Sephardim.