The following quote is from Otto Meyerhof, who won the 1922 Nobel Prize for Medicine or Physiology. It was submitted to Refuse Fascism by his grandson. Meyerhof discovered how sugar is converted into energy in the human body. He escaped from Germany and survived the Holocaust.
“Distinguishing between Germans and Nazis …. is in itself a propaganda lie. I know what all, or 90%, of the professors did in 1933 when their Jewish colleagues, whom they had themselves appointed, were deprived of their rights and made homeless — and the same thing occurred in all academic circles and at all levels in society, except in certain areas of the church: maintained their cowardly silence or even satisfaction, and not even 1% of the professors were party members. In the same fashion, broad sections of the population, though overall a somewhat smaller percentage, willingly served as slaves and helpers to the tyrants, even helping as torturers and executioners.
It doesn’t help that a powerless minority kept their hands clean, or that hundreds themselves became martyrs through the strength of their convictions, if hundreds of thousands turned into murderers. It would have been physically impossible for five million Jews, 80-90% of all Jews in the countries that Germany occupied — 10 million Russian, Polish, Serbian and other civilians — to be killed by a few Nazi criminals: hundreds of thousands were necessary for this. A people without any sense of morality were behind these mass murders….”
This quotation further explains why we say this is critical: Because you care about the future of this planet and you know that in these times the gravest problem is silence:
Don’t stop… Don’t conciliate… Don’t accommodate… Don’t collaborate.
“In the Name of Humanity, REFUSE To Accept a Fascist America.”