Efraim Zuroff on Eastern Europe and the Holocaust

In an interview with mit Johanna Adorján, Efraim Zuroff, director of the Simon Wiesenthal Centre, discusses the difficulties of tracking down the last living Nazi criminals and putting them on trial. He harshly criticises the role of the countries of Eastern Europe in the Holocaust and their treatment of this dark chapter in their past: "The Holocaust was not just the Germans against the Jews, it was Europe against the Jews. The Nazis found helpers in every European country, but in the countries of western, southern and northern Europe collaboration ended at the train stations. The Dutch police didn't kill Jews, they just put them on trains. They were killed in the East... In Lithuania 98 percent of the Jews were killed in their home villages. Only one group was transported to Auschwitz. In Estonia, Croatia and Ukraine the Germans found many people who were willing to murder Jews for them. Naturally, no one wants to hear about this in these countries. I am fighting for historic truth."

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