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Richard Wagner on anti-Semitism among Central Eastern Europeans

Author Richard Wagner explains why Central Eastern Europeans find it so difficult to confront their own past: "It's fate, but also a way of life for the so-called smaller nations to put up with occupiers and make the best of the situation. Small nations have a code of conduct for dealing with occupation. For them, the border between collaboration and patriotism sometimes gets blurred. After all, what matters is the survival of the nation, of the country as a whole. The silence which characterised the way anti-communists and ex-communists treated each other in Slovenia during the 1990s is very telling. However, this has made things too easy from a moral point of view. They have few qualms about talking their way out of their share of the blame even when it comes to the extermination of the Jews. Yet without Slovenian collaborators, the Nazis wouldn't have had the manpower to carry out the extermination of the Jews. The Nazis put the Holocaust into operation, but they didn't invent anti-Semitism."

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