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The persecution of the Jews and others was reported in many places, including the Nazi German press and Nazi German radio, which announced anti-Jewish measures with glee. Ordinary concentration camps (punishment and slave labour camps) were not a secret, either, though precise details of what happened there was hard to come by.

Extermination (which began in 1941) was supposed to be top secret, but information about it reached Britain and America from the Soviet Union and from the Polish Underground. Neither source was treated as trustworthy, at least until mid 1944. Moreover, Jan Karski, one of the top couriers of the Polish Underground had two long face-to-face meetings with President Roosevelt about the plight of the Jews. Roosevelt just kept on saying, 'The guilty will be punished'. (See link below).

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