answersLogoWhite

0

I been looking things up on the internet and i found out that people from different places around the world told people in the U.S about what was going on. The people that got the information then told other people about what the heard.

Put it this way: When Belsen was relieved in 1945 the troops who discovered what was happening there were horrified and astounded. They were wholly unaware. The Russians had already liberated Aushwitz & other death camps in Poland. They had said Nothing about it to the Western powers. It would be amazing to think that there was knowledge of the scale of what had happened in this time. Even ordinary Germans had very good reason to not know, or want to know, of the fate of millions of thir former neighbours. Such was the power of the Nazi state.

___

It is quite inaccurate to suggest that the Soviet Union hid the horrors they found in the extermination camps that they liberated in Poland. Shortly after the liberation of Majdanek in July 1944 the Soviet Army called an international press conference, and journalists from the U.S. (among other countries) were present (in August) and took photos of the camp and of survivors.

I have a pamphlet published in Britain in 1943 which has three articles about Nazi atrocities, including one specifically on the extermination of the Jews. (The pamphlet is not some clandestine publication and was readily available).

There is obviously a huge difference between what is reported and what actually registers with people.

User Avatar

Wiki User

15y ago

What else can I help you with?