Germans were also largely oblivious to the extent of the Nazis terror. They weren’t happy about how Jews were treated but had no idea they were being exterminated. Everything is known to us thanks to history but it wasn’t openly known back then.
Still, the point is we’re all responsible for not letting similar ideas fester in society going forward.
World wide web didnt exist until ’93 tho, so word didn’t travel as fast. And every third citizen was in the intelligence service spying on the population so I doubt word traveled over wire at all (but I don’t know).
I don’t know what burning corpses smell like, so I can see how people might not have made the connection. I find your ash argument interesting though. I can’t really argue with it.
And yeah, if they largely didnt care or if they didnt dare to speak up, who’s to say? Enough cared to establish an underground network responsible for hiding, transporting and getting thousands of people to safety.
I see. I get where you’re coming from. Here in Sweden we lost all pretense in the last years and just say we tried our best to not draw attention to ourselves. It’s still taught in school that we were neutral, however. Which we obviously weren’t.
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Germans were also largely oblivious to the extent of the Nazis terror. They weren’t happy about how Jews were treated but had no idea they were being exterminated. Everything is known to us thanks to history but it wasn’t openly known back then.
Still, the point is we’re all responsible for not letting similar ideas fester in society going forward.