“We did not know about the camps”..... oh, yeah? A map of the camps would put the lie to that, that and the smell that had to be known for it’s source.
It was culture wide— the easy acceptance of “sub-human” status of Gypsies, Poles, Hungarians, Russians, and Jews of any country of origin, and the justification for “removal”.
The same prior conditions are being set. Amazingly, the sheep, bah and graze.