Italy wasn't antisemitic after Mussolini fell and the Germans occupied the country the Italian population went to great lengths to protect the jews. Ill revise my assement of Germany the northern Protestant Germans weren't antisemitic before WWI( and even during the 3rd reich the nazi pogroms and SS roundups got little help from the population despite the constant anti semitic propaganda Austria was a diffrent story spontaneous anti semitic riots broke out the minute the Wehrmarcht marched in). Prussia was a very philo semitic society. Hitler was Austrian, Eichmann was Austrian, Heydrich and Himmler were Bavarians.
"Italy wasn't antisemitic after Mussolini fell and the Germans occupied the country the Italian population went to great lengths to protect the jews."
OK, granted that my opinion is just my opinion, but I feel that by the time Mussolini and his fascist JBTs were run out of town the Italian people had bigger boogeymen to worry about then the few Jews still left among them.
Here is an article that encapsulates my opinion.
"Holocaust and Genocide Studies"
"The Ambivalence of Italian Antisemitism: Fascism, Nationalism, and Racism in Trieste"
http://www3.oup.co.uk/holgen/current/160376.sgm.abs.html
Moreover, I believe that the great unwashed masses in Europe suffer from the same blind bigotry that Amerika has suffered from since its inception...which if you listen very carefully is still muttered under a lot of peoples breaths today as they go about their daily affairs here and abroad.