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Wait, are you saying that people didn't notice that Nazis were mass-killing people until 1945? What had they been doing since 1939?

• philwelch 6y ago
  The Nazis were in power for six years before 1939 and existed as a political movement since 1920.
  • jhgb 6y ago
    And they started mass-murdering people in 1939. The news were full of it.
    • philwelch 6y ago
      Most of Henry Ford’s Nazi sympathies took place prior to 1939. In fact it might be fairer to say that the Nazis were the ones inspired by Ford’s open promotion of anti-semitism.
• TeMPOraL 6y ago
  Yup. In fact, there are various stories of people in late 1930s who tried to get the word out to the wider world about what's starting to happen in Germany, and they were generally ignored. The world truly didn't learn about the camps until Nazi Germany was conquered.
  • jhgb 6y ago
    Possibly, but the knowledge that the Nazis were engaging in mass murder has been readily available once they declared war on the rest of the Europe and went through with it. You didn't have to wait until discovering some camps to change your notions of them.
    • TeMPOraL 6y ago
      That's a bit of revisionist history. It wasn't the age of Twitter. Until the discovery of the camps, this was just a world war. The other side was seen as just a regular enemy (+/- usual war propaganda), not as genocidal maniacs.