Dal 1938 al 1939, il comandante della frontiera svizzera Paul Grüninger falsificò i passaporti di 3.600 rifugiati ebrei per aiutarli a entrare nella Svizzera neutrale. Mentre salvava migliaia di persone dall’Olocausto, la Svizzera pose fine alla sua carriera, lo etichettò come un criminale e gli privò la pensione. Morì in povertà nel 1972.
https://i.redd.it/gls6ik2gb0mg1.jpeg
di Turbulent-Act9877
13 commenti
/Switzerland reads this and thinks “Selber schuld”
There’s a movie about him too: [https://www.playsuisse.ch/de/show/802120](https://www.playsuisse.ch/de/show/802120)
Wonderful Man.
Switzerland needs more people like him
Real hero ✔️🙏💪
A heroe..And the illustration that neutrality does not mean supporting immorality.
Neutrality is about standing up for the persecuted, offering them a safe heaven away from war, fighting for human rights in a polarized, war-torn world.
Every day lately I’m reminded about just how shitty humans can be.
Rules are rules I guess…awful.
From a human point of view, it was a good deed. Professionally, however, he deserves it.
Not even a hot take: he’d have the exact same consequences today if he did the same.
Was he or his family at all compensated post-war?
**edit -** [according to wiki](https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Gr%C3%BCninger) he got a sort of pardon in 1970, a color TV from the German president in 1971, and his surviving family got 1.3M CHF in compensation in 1998.
It’s not about helping people. It’s about adhering to strict rules! /s
Hero
Poor but a badass