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It varied. Many people knew. But even a few years after the war ended, some people even in neighbouring countries (I am from a neighbouring country) had a hard
by jacobush 8y ago
It varied. Many people knew. But even a few years after the war ended, some people even in neighbouring countries (I am from a neighbouring country) had a hard time believing it could have happened at that scale. I think that changed as TV documentaries become a thing.
Either way, there was and still is great room to look the other way.
But regarding the situation in Germany and occupied areas during the war, you have to understand that by the time the death industry was in full swing, protesting openly in any way could have you yourself summarily executed or imprisoned - with unclear outcome.
- Theodores 8y agoThere was an exception that proved* the rule. In 1943 there was a hitch and the Nazis stepped back from mass murdering German women that dared to protest in their capital city. The problem was that these good German women had Jewish husbands and weren't that keen on having their loved ones sent off for processing into lampshades: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosenstrasse_protest https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosenstrasse_protest * The actual facts of this protest are not clear and there is lots to be learned about not just what happened but the stories told about this event.