During WWII (1939-1945), many non-Jewish people recognised the extent of anti-Semitic behaviour, and aimed to work against the Nazi Holocaust in German Occupied Europe. To begin, as described in Yad Vashem, the World Holocaust Remembrance Centre, most non-Jewish people in occupied Europe did take part in the Nazi scheme (Yad Vashem, 2014). These bystanders did notice the severe discrimination of the Jewish people, however, they did not assist as they were too frightened to help, as even providing shelter was seen as a serious crime, resulting in persecution (Yad Vashem, 2014). An example of this behaviour, on November 9-10, 1938, the Nazis staged violent pogroms known as Kristallnacht (Night of Broken Glass) (United States Holocaust Memorial
