blnymph
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ORIGINAL: WickedsDesire You read Mein Kampf WM? thoughts? ffs 720 pages i aint reading that. ... Incidentally goebells secretary – died at 106 yesterday – she said she had no idea regarding the chambers: which were only one mode of torture exterminating a race-people to the brink of extinction) I do not believe her. Were all Germans aware of this probably. Top Nazi propagandist Goebbels' secretary dies at 106 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-38793048 In a recent documentary, she said she had known nothing of the murder of six million Jews during the Holocaust. In "A German Life", which was released last year, she said she felt no guilt - "unless you end up blaming the entire German population". I do. Yes I did. VERY tedious to read - also very clear about his intentions, if you make it to those passages somewhere amidst all that tedious gobbledigook under which these are buried. Did all Germans know about the gas chambers? No they did not. Some did know for sure. How many? Not easy to determine right now. A majority? Rather not. A significant minority? Maybe. I can tell you what all Germans know from childhood: The following sentences: "Shut up, or you 'll get to Dachau." "Nobody gets out of Dachau but by the chimney." "Don't ask, then you avoid hearing about things you should not know." "Never tell outside what we talk about at home." "Don't talk too much you never know who is listening." My translations, but otherwise quotations from my grandmother who was born in the late 1930s. These were the things a child learned before entering school. Did Germans wonder where their Jewish neighbours were transported to? Sure they did but they got told some story, and everybody knew it was wise not to ask for any other. Did some know more without asking? Yes, for example when soldiers came home on leave and told what they had seen happening there behind the front lines. Not everyone believed what they heard, some did, some spread the news, many of those did not survive it. Did Goebbels' secretary know? - Not if her job was typing his speeches and radio manuscripts (I am not sure if it was, but that was what Hitler's secretaries were doing most of their time). Did his staff (as Gauleiter of Berlin) know? Not all details, but the basic outline for sure since their job was to get Berlin "judenrein." Did his secretary ask to know what the others were occupied with? Certainly not, or she would have been not only fired but locked away, and, in all likeliness, not survived to the age of 106. In a time when being curious could get you into most serious trouble, the majority stopped appearing curious long before they really could know something for sure. And if you had been known as being not a party member before '33, having relatives with mental issues, not a spotless ancestry, or had a row with the local SA before '33, you never asked any questions about anything. So the question: "Did the Germans know ..." is missing the point that mattered; it should be: "Did they know, better not to want to know?" To that one the answer is "yes" for sure.
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