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Re:Avoiding outrage fatigue while staying informed by warkdarrior on Wednesday February 05, 2025 @05:57PM (#42956568)
Much of the German population in the 1930s and 1940s was not aware of concentration camps, and learned of them once the Allies arrived.
Re:Avoiding outrage fatigue while staying informed by anamdhek on Thursday February 06, 2025 @05:08AM (#42960880)
Early 30s, sure. Late 30s and 40s? You should qualify your statement with “this is a heated historical debate, but some people argue that…” Keep in mind the significant incentives to not seek out information, to disbelieve the information one did come across, and to lie after the war was over.
Re:Avoiding outrage fatigue while staying informed by NickC25 on Thursday February 06, 2025 @12:04PM (#42964297)
One of my neighbors when I grew up was part of Hitler Youth, and had moved to the US after the war. (for time context, I'm in my mid 30s, and he died a decade ago at IIRC 95 or 96, and I asked him about it maybe 20 years ago.)

I asked him if he and his fellow youths knew of anything. He said at first, no, but pretty quickly when all the jewish-owned businesses vanished almost overnight, everyone knew something was up. Did they know about the camps? Debatable. But even the kids knew that they jewish population was kicked out of society.

Re:Avoiding outrage fatigue while staying informed by wnc3141 on Thursday February 06, 2025 @06:42PM (#42967647)
They definitely knew something was up. There were active roundups of victims and a staunch public policy of ghettos etc.
Re:Avoiding outrage fatigue while staying informed by bobcatmin on Sunday February 09, 2025 @05:24PM (#42994697)
Laughably false, camps like Dachau were on newspapers and newsreels. Almost every Germans were aware that they were rounding up Jews and murdering them in camps.