-=> LEE LOFASO wrote to ALL <=-   
      
    LL> Hello Everybody,   
      
    LL> The Land of the Rising Sun is filled with wonderful people, a people   
    LL> who deserve far more credit than what they have received.  For example,   
    LL> during WWII, the Japanese people gave refuge to many Jews, thus saving   
    LL> them from certain death at the hands of the Nazis.    
      
   Yes, in Shanghi.   That was an open city for many years, that is anyone could   
   enter without papers - thus filled with white Russians and Jews.   
      
   But the story about not turning over their Jews can be traced to a very wise   
   Jewish Rabbi, that found out that the Nazi's were indeed asking the Japanese to   
   round up the Jews living there.  He went to the Japanese commandant and said   
   the only reason they're asking for us is because they believe we're inferior -   
   just like they look at YOU!  To them, only blue-eyed blondes are the chosen   
   ones.   
      
   Well, now ya gotta conflict as the Japanese feel that's their role - the chosen   
   ones. :)  So bottom line is no Jews were rounded up.   
      
   End result is yes, Jewish lives were saved, but there was an underlying reason   
   and it's not just humanitarian as much as a thumb in the Nazi eye. :)   
      
      
      
       
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