I think many Germns di
I think many did know but chose to look the other way, soldiers came home on leave and talked about what they saw and had done, the Camps in Germany were there years before the War, i admit they probably didn't know about the extermination camps which were in the East, but where did they think all those jews were going when there were round ups and their neighbours were taken away? there were also Camps in Germany, my Dad was with British forces when they entered Belsen what he saw there stayed with him all his life, i have some photos he brought back after the war of the SS Guards and the pits full of dead, that camp was close to a Town Celle a few miles away Dad never forgot the horrific smell of the place.
I admit the Gaza Genocide is live streamed yet they still deny it.
Soldiers who went on home leave during the war (10-15 days a year) - for a very few exceptions never actually talked about these things or actions they were involved themselves. My family had more shares in the Wehrmacht and administration then the average German citizens.
The only average person in my Family who "saw" what was going on, was an aunt of mine who served as a Wehrmacht nurse during the Warsaw 1944 uprising, and she only shared that horrific experience after the war. And it wasn't about Jews but Polish people.
Dachau and other KZ in Germany were known - but only in regards to imprisonment of so called subversive & criminal subjects.
When the mass evacuations of KZ's in early 1945 happened - people actually wondered about who these people are. And these evacuations happened almost entirely during the night.
My family had several staff-officers and two Generals in the Wehrmacht - none of them were involved in the mass-executions of Jews, however they were aware that Jews were transported away - to collection points, and that most or the Russian POW's wouldn't survive captivity.
The vast majority of German people believed what the government told them - Jews and other unwanted people were relocated to the East - to live amongst themselves in their own towns and settlements.
I talked to many people who lived in the vicinity of Extermination camps - they didn't notice any "smell" - aside at times from the chimneys (just like those of a factory) of the crematorium (the latter they had no knowledge about their existence). No one was allowed near, and certainly not into those camps and the guards were confined to the camps.
Many of those KZ inmates were forced to work in ordinary factories or industrial plants - however in separated buildings and no one was allowed to talk to them. Germans employees were told that if they talk to them or promote any contact they would be send to a KZ. An uncle of mine worked for a small construction company and they had three workers who were known to have been at Dachau - non of these workers addressed their stay at Dachau - and the other employees were clearly instructed not to talk to them - otherwise they would be send to Dachau.
It was rumored that these three had been socialists.
good deflection accuse others of what they themselves are doing.
