So tell me what is in the open at your local military base, government office building, etc., that we should but don’t necessarily see. I do not think the masses of the German people knew what was going on.
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I guess you haven’t see the films where the townspeople (not just the ones who were guarding the camp but everyone in town)
were marched to the death camps where bodies were stacked up.
google - did germans know about the holocaust
https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2001/feb/17/johnezard
https://www.facinghistory.org/holocaust-and-human-behavior/chapter-9/what-did-world-know
Film 1945:
If a base here in the USA was cremating in mass the remains of what was purported to be subhuman you and everyone else would know what that smell was all about. Who do you think worked in the camps? Well it wasn’t just the SS and gestapo types, the locals got jobs there.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2001/feb/17/johnezard
https://www.facinghistory.org/holocaust-and-human-behavior/chapter-9/what-did-world-know
google:
Images for most graphic holocaust documentary Capra
From Wiki
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imaginary_Witness
scroll down to read this part.
As Anker shows in the film, Hollywood did not only tell stories about the Holocaust, it actually helped to document the war. “Directors Frank Capra, John Huston, Billy Wilder, and George Stevens all worked for the Army Signal Corps’ motion picture unit. So important did the US government consider their work that after liberation, film crews went into concentration camps even before medical teams.[4] In the portion of the film describing the initial screenings of their footage back in the U.S., a portion narrated by film editor Stanley Frazen and screenwriter Melvin Wald, Wald says that “It was the most horrifying thing I’d ever seen, because the inmates walking in their black and white uniforms were like ghosts,” and Frazen admits that he had to leave the projection room to vomit.[4]
The above was released in the late 1960’s, I saw it as a TV special, might have been a 20 or 25 year after the war release.
There are suspect theories out there trying to take away the guilt of the German people but the reality is people did know but was okay with it because the propaganda conditioned the people that these “prisoners” in the camps were subhuman and needed to be exterminated.
I doubt anything I can say or point you to will change your mind on your statement to me. But this is for those who also might know what I am talking about because they were born during or soon after WW2.
The only thing I was bringing up to you was that I DOUBT every single German nearby knew what was going on, or that all Germans knew what was going on. I am a 63 year student of history; WWII, American Civil War, the Indian Wars 1700-1900s, etc. You must have thought I deny the murder of 6M Jews plus all the others who were put to death, which I believe did happen.