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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have done a lot of research about who knew what was going on. I know of Jews who were in the Warsaw ghetto (and escaped) who did not know what was going on until the end of the war. They had good reason to knw, and they still did not know. There were rumors, but the Nazis did so much to cover up, and scare the --- out of anyone who knew. The Nazis also had the smokescreen of war covering up and confusing the whole thing.

In Germany, many people were clueless. One officer was sent back to Munich on mental health leave. When he saw some of the brutality, he broke down and had to be hospitalized. His wife discretely told a neighbor. That was the kind of information that was spreading in the community.

On the few occaisions that the Allies bombed concentration camps, they bombed the ones that wre actually labor camps. The information was not perfect.

The truth came out with the Vrba report, spring 1944. That is when it was clear to everyone. From then on, action was taken to slow the Holocaust, as with Hungary.

The Nazis put half of their effort into the coverup, and for the most part, they were successful with that. I am of the opinion that the war was fought to provide the screen and get access to the Jews. Secondary gains like land, gold, and slave labor from all non Germans were less important. 
Please pardon the typos. [/quote]

This sounds insane and nothing that any reputable historian on the topic would endorse.[/quote]

There is a very good (but tiring) book called [i]What We Knew[/i]. It has lenghthy interviews with Jews and Germans, and the same theme keeps coming back. That is, no one (regular citizens) was really certain. 
The documentary [i]Shoah[/i] has interviews of locals in Poland. They say that they knew, or were very suspicious, but they were scared for their own lives or in some cases, did not care for the Jews. One person said that even staring directly at what the Germans were doing in public could get a person shot. People knew to just look at the ground or look away. 
Some of the prostitutes and girlfriends of the men who worked in the camps were the first outsiders to know. The men would talk in bed, I suppose.[/quote]

They might not have knew for certain, or had all of the pieces of the puzzle, but many people definitely knew something very bad was going on and that it could be dangerous for them to know. [/quote]

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