Many Germans regret the Holocaust. But there is still a group of people that believe Hitler was a rightful ruler and the Jews deserved to die. Some even believe it never happened because a) they regret it so much they want to pretend it never happened.
The existence of the extermination camps was also known in outline, though many Germans didn't want to know about the holocaust and took the line of 'hear no evil, hear no evil'.
Answer #2On the other hand even opponents of the regime (like Anna Seghers) are reporting that the concentration camps were declared as "correction camps" for dangerous individuals... fact is, nobody can really say how much this or that German knew about all this... I can hardly believe it when they say they didn't know anything - in the same time I can imagine the soldiers of the Wehrmacht, hurrying from one place to another were surprised - as they reported themselves - when they heard the rumours later on... some of them didn't see deportations, etc. and burning bodies could be covered by saying "we burn our deads after the bomber attacks" later in war.So it's hard to say - the first answer gives an important idea. It's of course true that some people that had delivered their own family members or neighbours to GESTAPO (secret state police) pretended later they didn't know anything about that. But it wouldn't be correct to call a German a liar if he/she would tell you, they didn't know what happened - it's just hard to say...
Further pointsObviously, the Nazi regime tried hard to keep the genocide of the Jews secret, but some information did get out, for example, some soldiers home on leave from the Eastern Front, did talk a little about mass shootings and so on.As for the ordinary concentration camps, they were feared.
On the more general issue of what was known, here is what the historian Helga Grebing (born in 1930) wrote in an early, respected short history of the Nazi period:
'Protective custody, the concentration camps, the boycott of Jewish businesses, etc., emigration, persecution, the Yellow Star, the treatment of prisoners of war and slave labourers from Eastern Europe - nobody who lived in the Third Reich can claim to have known nothing, absolutely nothing, about all that'. […]
'In 1945 the mass of silent, inconspicuous fellow-travellers claimed never to have had anything to do with Nazism'.
Helga Grebing, Der Nationalsozialismus: Ursprung und Wesen, Günther Olzog Verlag, Munich, 1964 pp. 130-31. (First published in 1959).
Most German soldiers on the Eastern Front had a good idea of what was going on.
It was hard for any of them to know anything close to the full picture, but they would have know the rules for (mis)treating Jews.
Nerve gas, bullets, and fire. Not many people know that in addition to the concentration camps, the German SS soldiers were eventually allowed to kill any Jew on sight, anywhere.
Jews had some idea of what was happening. Most of their friends would just disappear and even in concentration camps they noticed people leave and never come back.
For your general point, please see the related question.The early concentration camps were for political opponents.Contrary to a widespread misconception the decision to kill all Jews in areas under German control was not taken till 1941. (Jews in Germany and some occupied countries were allowed to leave if they have somewhere to go to and could actually get there). There wasn't a long-standing plan to commit genocide.
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AnswerThe vast majority of "incurables" were killed in killing centres in Germany and weren't sent to camps. After all, the SS didn't want people arriving at camps in wheelchairs.
Many did but they ignored it. The camps were not in remote places. Dachau is only 15 or 20 miles outside of Munich. That isn't far and people could see the black smoke from the ovens.
if you mean what happened after Germany after they were being invaded, then i can answer you. after people fond out, they were ging to come to invade the German armies and rescue the survivors from the camps. and if it wasnt to late for some of the camps, they tried killing as many of the people in the camps as possible. and the u.s army made the Germans walk through the camps to make them see what it was that was happening. because many didnt know. or they lied saying that they didnt know. then it came to an end for Hitler. when he found out that he was going to be killed, he poisned his wife and dog and shot himself. hope this answers your question.
Nerve gas, bullets, and fire. Not many people know that in addition to the concentration camps, the German SS soldiers were eventually allowed to kill any Jew on sight, anywhere.
Jews had some idea of what was happening. Most of their friends would just disappear and even in concentration camps they noticed people leave and never come back.
For your general point, please see the related question.The early concentration camps were for political opponents.Contrary to a widespread misconception the decision to kill all Jews in areas under German control was not taken till 1941. (Jews in Germany and some occupied countries were allowed to leave if they have somewhere to go to and could actually get there). There wasn't a long-standing plan to commit genocide.
Europe lay under German domination.
The UN has no power to override ruling activities in another country.
not exactly, but they knew that people met their fate there. The further one lived from the camps, or major transport routes, the less they would know.
Relief Camps were the camps for the people who were unemployed and couldn't make a living. These Camps gave food, clothes and 20 cents of wage a day.......... And if likely to know more about I'll be always here
because people were escaping the camps and going to England and telling people
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dont know really