From: Tony Williams 

Phil Payne wrote:
>>>I wonder ho wmany people actually knew the  Holocaust was going on at
>
> the
>
>>>time?  And, if they did know, what would they have been ABLE to do about
>
> it
>
>>>over and above the life-or-death effort they were making to defeat the
>>>Germans at the time?
>>
>>I wonder how many Germans knew the Holocaust was going on?
>
>
> A lot, I think.  Holocaust denial became a way of life in Germany after the
> war - just as every American will claim to be anti-Iraq war - but it's
> amazing how much trivial documentary evidence has appeared over the years,
> especially a great burst when Germany reunified.
[snip]

Thanks for the background; that was the feel I got from conversations when
I briefly worked in Germany (Gottingen). It was a bit scary when we visited
a friend's house and his father insisted on showing us an entire basement
full of Nazi memorabilia: banners and other decorations mostly, but the one
I particularly remember was an anti-British propaganda song on a 78 which
he insisted on playing on an old wind-up gramophone.

I would have guessed that the denial started during the war though, with
people refusing to mentally join the dots which would have forced them to
acknowledge what was happening.

--
Tony

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