Extracts the Financial Times: << “What makes a Resistance hero?” asks Rutger Bregman in the title of his new Dutch e-book. Why did a very few Europeans risk their lives to save others? …

<<What does differentiate the saviours? Research by Federico Varese and Meir Yaish found that one condition was crucial. If it was met, writes Bregman, 96 per cent of people agreed to help save Jews. That condition: they had to be asked.>>