Rescuer countries acted from national dignity, not pro-Jewish sentiment

Evidence

Alternatively, those countries that helped to save the Jews, such as Denmark, Italy, and Romania in the latter part of the war did not do it necessarily out of pro-Jewish sentiment but more as a way of asserting their own national dignity, having in other ways been humiliated by Nazi Germany. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 513

Categorization

• CANDY: A light, quotable counterintuitive nugget: even the rescuers weren’t primarily motivated by liking the Jews — national pride did the work.