[bzbarsky]

> Nor were there any country actually try to help the jews before or during the war.

Depending on how you define "country" (as opposed to just "a large fraction or majority of its citizens"), Denmark did in fact help Jews, at least Danish ones.

And the story of Bulgaria is .. complicated. Again, they protected Bulgarian Jews in practice.

Portugal helped not only Portuguese Jews, but many others as well. In particular, they generally allowed a huge number of refugees (16% of the country's population), including Jews, into the country.

It's true that the main Allied powers were not particularly going out of their way to help Jews, but "any country" is a high bar.

[bruiseralmighty]

Saving the Jews was not on any country's radar entering WWII. It was only afterwards that evidence of holocaust was discovered.

[soperj]

That's absolutely veritably false. The Polish government-in-exile in London first reported crimes in the Auschwitz complex to the western public in 1941.

[bruiseralmighty]

Yes you are correct. I should amend my previous statement.

>It was only afterwards that evidence of holocaust was verified and/or believed.*

The reports from the Polish government in exile did not make front page news. I'd still stand by the earlier statement:

> Saving the Jews was not on any country's radar entering WWII.

You might argue that Poland wanted to save the Jews, but at the point that reports of mass murder were coming out of Germany in 1941, the Polish government no longer had a country to manage. They had exited WWII as losers.

Reports of mass murder of Jews weren't verified by the USG until 1942. I would still argue that saving the Jews did not even crack the top 10 reasons for the USG invading Europe. After all, they verified these reports and still waited 2 years before making landfall.

[soperj]

>Saving the Jews was not on any country's radar entering WWII & >Reports of mass murder of Jews weren't verified by the USG until 1942. I would still argue that saving the Jews did not even crack the top 10 reasons for the USG invading Europe. After all, they verified these reports and still waited 2 years before making landfall.

I absolutely agree with these.