My wife knows an older gal that came over from Germany. She was a child during the war. Some lady in her village gave some bread to a child in the nearby concentration camp - tossing it over the fence I suppose.
The lady said the Nazis took the woman and her entire family - husband and all the kids. Made everyone in the village come out to watch as the family was paraded to the town square, wrapped them in hay, then soaked in gas, then lit on fire.
Kind of puts to rest the stories that the local Germans didn’t know about the nearby concentration camps. Of course not much they could do about them anyway.
Just watching the Army make the locals bury them was enough evidence for me.
They knew and did not care.
When I was 20 something I took a trip from Hamburg to Bavaria with a Kaiser-esque German businessman.
That evening he drank me under table all the while telling me tales and making reparation for the evil done during WW II.