From: Adam <""4thwormcastfromthemolehill\"{at}the field.near
the bridge">

Tony Williams wrote:
> 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.
>
I remember skiing in austria & having an odd conversation with an old
bod who still could not believe we fought against them & thus for the
jews & communists.

Adam

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