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> We didn’t get horrified by the Holocaust until well afterwards. Contrary to popular opinion, the atrocities committed by the Nazis was not a secret. The exte
by kQq9oHeAz6wLLS 3y ago
> We didn’t get horrified by the Holocaust until well afterwards.
Contrary to popular opinion, the atrocities committed by the Nazis was not a secret. The extent of those atrocities, perhaps, but the newspapers of the day contained stories of those terrible deeds.
Now, the treatment of Allied POWs held in Japan, for the most part, was a surprise, at least for civilians, and from what I've read, many in the military as well.
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- DoreenMichele 3y agoI genuinely don't understand this comment. First, the difference between "bad things" and "atrocities" is the extent or severity. Second, everything I've seen indicates people did not know a lot of what was going on. The internet was not a thing. News was being gotten via short videos prior to movies at the movie theater. It was significantly delayed compared to news these days. Soldiers were shocked at what they found when they liberated concentration camps. A game was created to explain to modern peoples or demonstrate how this could be engineered while keeping most participants in the dark. People delivering train loads of people to concentration camps didn't know the full story. Etc.