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cheddar cheese said:And I meant they didnt know what he was going to do when he got into power, Germany was in the slumps in he 30's, he seemed to offer them a way out but didnt tell them how he was gonna get em out...
cheddar cheese said:NO.
The only reason they supported him is because Germany was going through a time of great depression (much like the rest of the world). He appeard to offer them a way out - they support him. When they get wind of what he was really up to, they start disliking him - however it was too late to do anyhing about it, anyone who opposed them would face the Gestapo. I think you're getting confused with what the German people THOUGHT and what they APPEARED TO THINK. Most of the German population knew very well what was going on by about 1936/37.
HealzDevo said:Did they? Do you really think the German people had a full picture of what was going on? I am not excusing the people entirely, but they probably thought Hitler was just exporting the Jews elsewhere.
HealzDevo said:Most people in Germany even up until after 1945 would have scoffed and told you not to be ridiculous if you had told them about the concentration camps.
HealzDevo said:Even today there are those people that are misguidely believing that there was no holocaust of the Jews in Europe.
HealzDevo said:The German people couldn't do anything once he was in power and they realised their mistake, they were trapped. Don't you think they tried to get rid of him?
HealzDevo said:Afterall there were bombs planted by conspirators and the like, but he seemed to be unable to be killed.
HealzDevo said:Its easy to look back with the benefit of hindsight and say that a certain leader should never had been elected, but those German people had to vote based on the information they had at that time which is considerably less than we have today about Hitler and his plans. That is the scary part, that there was a real lack of information which led to him getting elected. The results have been talked about on this forum. There were attempted poisons, sniping at him, and even an attempted bomb at his headquarters but he survived.
As if robbing them of their property and deporting them were okay?
Yes, and these people often lived within visual distance of a camp. They could smell the stench from the camp when the wind blew toward them. They could see trains full of Jews going in, but only empty trains comming out. The only reason they "didn't know" was because they didn't want to know. But really, they knew and just didn't care.
Yes. It is easier for them to deny it than to admit it.
No, the people believed in Hitler and supported him until the very last month or so of WWII.
He made promises that the German people wanted to hear, and they didn't ask or want the details on how these promises would be fulfilled. But they knew it was going to be done by taking from others and giving to them.
Crazy said:I'd like to point out that most of the camps were concentration, not extermanation, not even concentration/extermination. Which meant that for the most part, mass genocide occured in camps like Treblinka, Sobibor, Chelmno, and Belzec, all of which were outside of original German territory, in former Poland.
The Germans knew that Jews and other minorities were being placed into special camps. But most of the killing was being done away from prying eyes, mostly outside of Germany
GermansRGeniuses said:Do you understand that the point of a death camp is to exterminate, and that a concentration camp holds and kills, but its real purpose is to act as a sort of prison and work camp...
The next room was about the worst, I believe. Here were four, large, furnaces, the crematorium. As many as three bodies were crammed into each furnace at a time and burned, about 165 a day, we were told. Some of the victims were hanged on the rafters just a few feet from the furnaces, then burned. But deaths too greatly out-numbered the furnace capacity so bodies were piled like sacks of flour in the next room, hundreds of them.
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