“344,000 Jews murdered, you say? Ja, I heard zometing about dat. I musta been out gettin’ zome shmokes when it happen. I zaw nuttin’.”
Not only that. He would have smelled the horrific smell of hundreds of thousands of bodies being burned. Just as the people who lived in the surrounding area would have also smelled it....and done nothing.
The smell of a rotting corpse is unmistakable. I can still recall the time (I was about 9 or 10), when I was exposed to the smell of a murdered body placed into the trunk of a car which was abandoned on a major highway across the street from my father’s shop. The smell was awful, and that was just from ONE body.
“Murdered!?! Nein,zey died of heart failure!’’.