Many years ago, in my junior history class at East High in Salt Lake City, my teacher Mr. Archbold described to us the horrific mistreatment of the Jews in Germany and the countries it occupied in the 1930s and ’40s.
Relatively few of those oppressed people ever made a serious attempt to escape from the terrible oppression. Most remained in their homes, refusing to accept the stories of atrocity being spread about the Nazis, even as their fellow Jews, as well as Gypsies and homosexuals, disappeared from their neighborhoods.
I was aghast, not only by the horror of the Holocaust, but also by the incredible naiveté and denial exhibited by those who refused to leave.