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So they said. There's a lot of counter-evidence to it:
https://www.auschwitz.org/en/education/e-learning/podcast/keeping-the-functioning-of-auschwitz-in-secrecy/
They kept meticulous records by using cutting-edge technology:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_and_the_Holocaust
Amen to accountability. Using intent instead is pretty much a blank check for the privileged to oppress the average person with impunity.
They did...
But they kept it at the camps, or in secret memos only for high ranking party members.
Again, just because trump claims incompetence in the present when we ask where people are, doesn't mean we have all the information.
trump says the Epstein list doesn't exist too, and we haven't seen it either...
But that doesn't mean it doesn't exist.
Like, you're assuming common people knew then what common people knew after. That's a dangerous assumption when we're living thru it
Think of how much shit comes out normally 5-10 years later. We still haven't been hit by the really bad shit trump did his first term.
As bad as 2016-now looks, it's an almost guaranteed that by 2045 we're going to find out it was much worse.
Edit:
To clarify this was the (valid) justification for going after some teenage secretaries at the camps and random offices when they didn't go after every single soldier.
Because someone had to type that shit up, a few low level people were the exception and weren't ignorant.
That being said, if you're a 16 year old girl some old Nazi made his secretary, you were probably going thru your own personal hell and couldn't exactly snitch even if you wanted to.
But...
In the context of how widespread the knowledge of the camps was, it's a relevant tidbit that backs up how few Germans really knew what was happening.