Of course.

  • givesomefucks@lemmy.world
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    13 hours ago

    I’m not going to do a better job than Wikipedia:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knowledge_of_the_Holocaust_in_Nazi_Germany_and_German-occupied_Europe#Nazi_Germany

    But the jist is while many were aware the Nazis wanted to do it, they weren’t aware it was really happening.

    And every sign they had then, America has now…

    Not sure where you’re getting your info, but Wikipedia is properly sourced and disagrees with you

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      13 hours ago

      Wait, what are you claiming Wikipedia is saying?

      “many historians argue that Germans were provided information explicit enough to indicate that the Jewish people were being massacred”

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        What’s one complete article compared to a partial sentence stripped of all context?

        The precise number of people who knew of the Final Solution is unknown. The larger population were at least acutely aware of the Nazi Party’s antisemitism, if not advocates of the movement themselves. Numerous perspectives emerge when examining the degrees to which the larger population were aware that antisemitic practices enabled by the Nazi Party would eventuate to ethnic cleansing of the Jewish population. However, many historians argue that Germans were provided information explicit enough to indicate that the Jewish people were being massacred.

        Although the mass murder of Jews took place outside of Germany, the mass killing of Soviet prisoners of war occurred within it and at an early date. By mid 1942 an estimated 227,000 had died after being deported to Germany. Many Germans were aware of these killings. Some Germans tried to help the prisoners, by giving them food or even aiding escapees. According to the Security Service reports, many Germans called for the death of these prisoners out of fear that feeding them would reduce their own rations.[9]

        Like if there’s one word that being removed from a sentence is a giant red flag…

        “However” has to be up there.

        Like, it’s hard to see that deliberate and unnecessary ommision as anything other than an intentional and explicit choice to bias people who didn’t click the link…