The Holocaust

Zen Rogers
 What did the
German people
know about what
was happening in
the camps?
They knew about the deaths but did not know the severity of what
was happening behind what was displayed..
- A scare factor done by Hitler

Taught them to not say a word

- about their experience in the
camps.

- They knew the people would tell.

not much information was

- spread about what they did.

- The population was fearful and

subdued.

- They only knew about the

camps.
Repeatedly, Nazi soldiers

soldiers reported Forcing Germans to not talk.

Not wanting other places to

that German
know the severity of the
problems happening.

civilians denied
any knowledge Germans forced into silence
about it, making it hard to

of the camps. know how much they knew

about the problems
happening.
William Warde, who served with the Staff Sergeant Whiteway of the
232nd Infantry Regiment 99th Infantry Division
Recorded that most Germans Believed no German saw the
did NOT know what was camps or authority.
actually happening.

Arthur L. Johnson Staff Sergeant Powell

Found how bitter of the stories Travelled seeing Germans

are about people not knowing say they were "anti-fascists"
even though they live 10-15 and of course not knwoing
miles away from a camp. the concentration camps
exsisted.
 They knew concentration camps were full of Jewish
people who were stigmatised as sub-human and
race-defilers.
They knew that these, like other groups and minorities, were being
killed out of hand.

They knew that Adolf Hitler had repeatedly forecast the

name
extermination of every Jew on German soil.
Holland, who died in June, spent
more than a decade befriending
former Nazis and persuading them
to talk about what they knew for
his monumental work, which drew
prolonged applause from critics.
Others denied the Holocausts while
openly admitting they knew about
massacres.
The End