Some of us prefer to avoid conflict if possible, especially when we feel alone. It's hard to stand against your peers. But examples of moral courage inspire us - like that father at a school board meeting, or the NY teacher, or Robert P. George, or Peter Boghossian.
What if you promoted a movement you thought was good, and then discovered it was bad? Georg Ferdinand Duckwitz joined the Nazi party before World War II, but later decided that he was "fundamentally deceived" about the organization he had joined.
In 1943, the organizer of the Gestapo told him that they were going to round up all the Jews in Denmark on October 1. Duckwitz approached Sweden's prime minister, who agreed to take the Jewish refugees. He told a Danish contact about the Nazi plan on September 29, who then warned the acting chief rabbi and the head of the Jewish community.
Word spread quickly. Over the next two months, ordinary Danish people hid them and then organized a mass escape of 7200 Jews and 700 of their non-Jewish relatives over the sea to Sweden.
from Wikipedia
(cont'd tomorrow)
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