You might be interested in Hans Frank's story. Here was a true monster, a man of unquestionable guilt who had a religious conversion while he was awaiting trial, apparently a sincere one. At that trial he stated, "A thousand years will pass and the guilt of Germany will still not have been erased." He went to the scaffold smiling, stating that it was an act of atonement.
So your point is well taken, but it is simply not the case that evidence is shaky or not available. It turns out to be abundant. One of the most frightening things about research into this arena is just how good the records the Nazis kept were. True, these deteriorated toward the end of the war, but during the height of the killing they were horrifyingly complete. The books I referenced in my previous posting detail this better than I ever could. It isn't light reading. Best to you.
One of the most frightening things about research into this arena is just how good the records the Nazis kept were. True, these deteriorated toward the end of the war, but during the height of the killing they were horrifyingly complete.
After the war, my grandmother researched and received a formal paper through a Jewish organization with her parents’ Vernichtungsdaten on it. Extermination dates. Each was killed in a concentration camp and each parent had an “extermination date.”
When I first found this document in a book of hers, my legs gave way and I slumped into the floor.