Remember in the 1930's - 1940's when a bunch of conspiracy theorists were saying the Reichstag Fire was a false flag and Hitler was using it to take total authoritarian power? Sadly, even then 90% of the people were sheep and believed whatever government told them

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[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

If I remember correctly (I could be wrong, and there are histories by biased historians that might say otherwise), Germans were informed by the government that the Homosexuals, Communists, enemies of the state, mentally ill, gypsies, and Jews were sent on trains to camps, until further notice. The German population may have known that some of these people were convicted of higher crimes and given the death penalty. But there was no official government document - or government-supported newspaper article - directed at the general public that admitted to the extermination or mass murder of these prisoners. I think this would have been explicitly against previous peace treaties, and it was not useful as government propaganda.

[–]bjam27 1 insightful - 4 fun1 insightful - 3 fun2 insightful - 4 fun -  (2 children)

Dachau was opened in tbr early 30s and was located IN MUNICH. Germans all knew of the holocaust they're just disgusting evil people.

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Yes, and here is the announcement:

On Wednesday the first concentration camp is to be opened in Dachau with an accommodation for 5000 people. 'All Communists and—where necessary—Reichsbanner and Social Democratic functionaries who endanger state security are to be concentrated here, as in the long run it is not possible to keep individual functionaries in the state prisons without overburdening these prisons, and on the other hand these people cannot be released because attempts have shown that they persist in their efforts to agitate and organize as soon as they are released.

Thus "accommodation for 5000 people" was arranged, not mass murder. By 1942, the overcrowding situation was more severe for the camps, whereby mass murders were arranged:

A crematorium that was next to, but not directly accessible from within the camp, was erected in 1942

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There's a crematorium and delousing chamber at Ellis Island. Is this evidence of mass murder at Ellis Island? Or, are these facilities exactly what you would expect to find if one was trying to minimize the spread of disease in a cramped environment?