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Also, the camps themselves were built by businessmen. Hitler had strong ties to German business. He gave many handouts to business over the years, including lab

• coldtea 12y ago
  Another perhaps little known to some fact is that tons of people, especially businessmen and politicians, viewed Hitler favorably in the US, until they entered the war. Including his views on Jews etc. He was a kind of their mascot against "the reds" and against unruly workers and working classes in the US. Also, contrary to some belief, before and even during the war, the US mostly could not care less about the plight of Jews at the time, even when it was known what was happening to them. E.g http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MS_St._Louis http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MS_St._Louis http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_antisemitism_in_the_United_States#The_Holocaust http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_antisemitism_in_the_...