Each made a different contribution, depending on country-specific circumstances and conditions of German rule. But the Holocaust played out most gruesomely in Eastern Europe, owing to the sheer number of Jews in the region and the incomparable ruthlessness of the Nazi occupation regimes.
所有被占领的欧洲社会都或多或少参与了纳粹屠杀犹太人的行动。每个国家所起的作用不同，取决于各国具体的环境和德国统治的情况。但大屠杀在东欧最为恐怖，因为这一地区犹太人数量大、纳粹占领政权特别冷酷。