• Maalus@lemmy.world
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    11 days ago

    Bullshit. People knew, they aren’t dumb. The polish underground reported on them regularly and even had operatives inside them. People living around them knew they were death camps. You cannot commit such slaughter and somehow magically hide it.

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      11 days ago

      Average people simply didn’t have access to information at the scale we now enjoy at that time. Leaders of countries and militaries might know, but unless it was being reported by wire services and in local newspapers, the average person would have had no rational way of finding out about it.

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        11 days ago

        People in Poland knew. That’s what I’m certain of. I know because my grandparents mentioned it and they were “average people”, far away from the camps.