Quote Originally Posted by Seamus Fermanagh View Post
There was quite a lot of intolerance and persecution under the Hapsburgs, though it can be argued that it was not then "The Netherlands." Persecution did not occur as The Netherlands, but certainly a degree of intolerance was practiced, with non-Calvanists or Jews (Jews could and did openly worship and participate in government) functionally barred from government office and Lutheran and other non-Calvinist churches required to practice their faith in private and in churches that conformed to Calvinist decorative standards.

I am less certain about the "willingness" to support the Holacaust. I wonder how much was willing versus how much was "unwilling to pay the cost of overt opposition." Neither position, of course, is morally perfect, but the latter seems a touch less like active persecution.
For every article I read about ww2, I get more and more convinced that "unwilling to pay the cost of overt opposition." is just an excuse people made after ze germans lost.

I believe the truth is simply that nobody cared about the jews. Not in the Neds, Not in Scandinavia, certainly not in France.

After all, we natives(in several countries) were so enthusiastic about rounding up the jews that the germans had to ask us to calm down, since they feared it would cause social unrest and undermine their war effort. Quisling, for example, was deposed and replaced by Terboven solely because he was too pro-nazi.