How Did Paul Grueninger Contribute To The Holocaust

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Paul Grueninger, a Swiss hero of the Holocaust The Holocaust was a twentieth century massacre which led to the deaths of approximately six million Jews, who were killed by the Nazi regime, and its allies. Five million citizens who were not Jewish were killed by the Nazi Party, due to assisting the Jews, which makes a total of eleven-million deaths in German land. Paul Grueninger, a Swiss man living during the dark times of World War II, spent his life as a border police commander at the edge of Austria and Germany. The officer was forty-seven, when he started seeing the famous capital letter “J” stamped in the passports of the Jewish. As the border police commander, he controls who comes into the country, and who gets …show more content…

Although he was told to reject the Jewish people, he did not comply with his orders, and was able to allow the escapers out of the country, and into Switzerland. To let the desperate Jewish people, he would also need to falsely change their registrations, so that it would look as if they had escaped before March in 1938. Since these dates were changed, it had made the Jewish people who had left the country legal citizens. Therefore, Grueninger had to turn in false reports on who had entered or exited the country, and how many people there were who did enter or exit. Grueninger also helped the refugees in need by buying them winter clothing, due to the fact that they had to leave all of their belongings behind, and he even payed for it with his own money. In January, 1939, the Germans had found out about Paul Grueninger’s actions in helping the Jewish people, and because of them, he was put on trial. The trial ended up lasting over two years, ending in March of 1941. Although what he did was the right thing to do, he was determined guilty of breach of duty. His punishment, forced him to forfeit his retirement funds, his benefits were suspended, and he was fined the

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