From 1938 to 1939, Swiss border commander Paul Grüninger falsified 3,600 Jewish refugees’ passports to help them enter neutral Switzerland. While he saved thousands from the Holocaust, Switzerland ended his career, labeled him a criminal, and stripped his pension. He died in poverty in 1972.
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/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
Legend
I was in Kunsthaus Zurich and a crazy amount of paintings had a notice that “This painting may have been looted by the nazis”. It was pretty crazy.
Luckily our gouvernment acts the very same way today when it comes to the genocide in Gaza, so our next generation can be as ashamed of our past as we are today, as is tradition.
if you are not neutral because you care (for others)