Jewish refugees were turned away by so-called 'civilized' nations and sent to their deaths. Read the stories just today on "Inspector Dreyfus" actor Herbert Lom (RIP) and the fate of his girlfriend Didi when she was turned away at the port of Dover on the eve the German invasion of Czechoslovakia.
Italy resisted collaborating (there was no persecution until Germans took over the country late in the war); Spain took in many (while being painted as a Nazi ally when they were in fact neutral).
Many people had no involvement with the murders (there is no defense for those who were involved); painting with a broad brush is no better than what the Nazis did to stir people up with generalizations about Jewish people.