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Monday, June 24, 2013

A Jewish woman helped Nazis find 3000 other Jews even after they sent her parents to a concentration camp!

de bene esse: literally, of well-being, morally acceptable but subject to future validation or exception

Stella Kubler was born of Jewish parents, and married a Jewish man. When the second World War broke out, her parents tried to flee Germany, but they were unable to escape. In 1943, Stella and her parents were arrested by the Gestapo. It was at this point that Stella struck an unusual deal with the Gestapo.

Stella agreed to use her knowledge of people in the Jewish community to find persons pretending that not to be Jewish. The reason for Stella's actions on the Gestapo's behalf was her belief that the Gestapo wouldn't send her, her parents, or her husband to a concentration camp as long as she was able to find Jews in hiding. The Nazi's referred to Stella as 'blonde poison'.

Stella, according to records, found between 600 and 3000 Jewish people and turned them into the Gestapo. The Gestapo inevitably placed her parents in a concentration camp, where they were killed, but Stella continued to turn in hiding Jewish people.

When the war ended, Stella spent 10 years in a Soviet prison for her crimes. Upon release, she lived in West Germany. Over the years, her actions during World War II took a tremendous toll on her mental stability, she suffered from depression and extensive loneliness. In 1994, the guilt was too much, and Stella committed suicide by jumping from a window.

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