Let's go ? Let's go where ? Starbucks ? I crave for coffee.
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Keep it up Soren. You think I am acting like a child now? Let's go...
Thanks BT. It was shortly after I read "Mein Kampf" that I decided to check out Neitzsche and only read a few parts of "Thus Spoke...." It was taxing after a while and its been 20+ years since I've read both books. Basically a lazy man's 'been there, done that'. Thanks for the insight.
As the starter of this therad said right its a sensitive subject and as a German i spoke with my family about this time often. The so called " little" man heard rumours , especially when he was living on the country side.
But it was forbidden by law to intervene or to support the Jews, Commies, gays, etc. otherwise the supporter were sent to prison or to the camps.
In that time every german could know it by reading Mein Kampf, and it right in the beginning the germans could see the jewstars on the clothing, but they had the Police, Gestapo and so after installing the System Hitler there were no chance to stop it from Germany it self.
I think the Allies were not aware to the extent of what was happening although there were tells - from jewish immigrants to, I believe, even the Vatican. May have dismissed it as too far fetched.
Ferdinand, its been about 20 years or more but I remember that first impression it wasn't nothing special but as I recognized the history of the book I was kinda amazed. It seemed IIRC to me that he wanted to blame everybody and saw himself as the new Neitschze (spelling). It seemed logical but you had to read between the lines.
The refusal of other countires (including the UK) to accept the Jewish refugees is a shameful fact which has been buried (in a most convenient manner) by the enormity of the atrocity the Germans went on to perpetrate. It is also a symptom of times. Anti-Semitism was rife not only in Germany and Russia, but all over Europe. The UK's own history of anti-Semitism stretched back to at least the 13th century, and it had been particularly rife in the poorer parts of London during the closing decades of the 19th century - so much so that it fact played a moajor role in the Jack the Ripper case of the late 1800s.It was also a factor in the Dreyfus Affair of the 1890s in France. Anyone familar with the social history of the era should not be surprised at the reaction of other European countries to the westward flow of Jewish refugees.
As for deliberately targeting the camp infrastructure, my belief is that a combination of entrenched attitudes about Jews, ignorance/disbelief of the true scale of the Holocaust, and the pressing need to support the invasion of Occupied Europe combined to prevent a specific intervention being made. Perhaps with hindsight we can say more should have been done; but at the time the plight of the Jews must have seemd to be a relatively minor issue in the wider strategic context.