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Where most of the German population unaware of what the Nazis?

were really doing? Like were they brainwashed by propoganda or did they know about the Holocaust.

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  • Thomas
    Lv 7
    8 years ago
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    There was no internet and no TV. People (sometimes) had radio. The most read newspaper was the "Züricher Neueste Nachrichten" and the "Völkischer Beobachter", the first one because it came from Switzerland but as a newspaper published in German was not prohibited and the second one because it was the official NSDAP newspaper.

    Concerning censorship and one sided information: The Nazis had prohibited 7.100 books, newspapers and other printed Information material. When the Allied occupied Germany they prohibited 35.000 different printed materials to be read or sold and those still are forbidden to be sold in Germany. With those being added since 1945 the count should be around 45.000 today.

    Concerning "brainwash": Do you know that Hitler had contract with the Zionists to let Jews emigrate to Palestine with all of their assets? The contract was called "Haavara" or "Transfer" agreement and was a significant contribution to the founding of the State of Israel.

    Do you also know that the SS was the most pro Zionist organization of the time being, that the Nazis had established 40 training camps for Jewish settlers to Palestine, above which officially flew the Zionist flag, today's flag of Israel?

    If you do not know the above, how can you complain about people being "brainwashed", blame them for not knowing what you know, people of who lived 75 years ago and had less than one tenth of the information sources, you have today. Blame them, even when you too know only a very small part of the topic, if not close to nothing.

    This is not to blame you for anything. The question is: who is the one being brainwashed?

    Quotes from the links below:

    #1:

    The SS was particularly enthusiastic in its support for Zionism. An internal June 1934 SS position paper urged active and wide-ranging support for Zionism by the government and the Party as the best way to encourage emigration of Germany’s Jews to Palestine. This would require increased Jewish self-awareness. Jewish schools, Jewish sports leagues, Jewish cultural organizations — in short, everything that would encourage this new consciousness and self-awareness – should be promoted, the paper recommended.8

    SS officer Leopold von Mildenstein and Zionist Federation official Kurt Tuchler toured Palestine together for six months to assess Zionist development there. Based on his firsthand observations, von Mildenstein wrote a series of twelve illustrated articles for the important Berlin daily Der Angriff that appeared in late 1934 under the heading “A Nazi Travels to Palestine.” The series expressed great admiration for the pioneering spirit and achievements of the Jewish settlers. Zionist self-development, von Mildenstein wrote, had produced a new kind of Jew. He praised Zionism as a great benefit for both the Jewish people and the entire world. A Jewish homeland in Palestine, he wrote in his concluding article, “pointed the way to curing a centuries-long wound on the body of the world: the Jewish question.” Der Angriff issued a special medal, with a Swastika on one side and a Star of David on the other, to commemorate the joint SS-Zionist visit. A few months after the articles appeared, von Mildenstein was promoted to head the Jewish affairs department of the SS security service in order to support Zionist migration and development more effectively. 9

    The official SS newspaper, Das Schwarze Korps, proclaimed its support for Zionism in a May 1935 front-page editorial: “The time may not be too far off when Palestine will again be able to receive its sons who have been lost to it for more than a thousand years. Our good wishes, together with official goodwill, go with them.”10 Four months later, a similar article appeared in the SS paper:

    #2:Zionism was supported by the German SS and Gestapo.[3] [4] [5] [6] Hitler himself personally supported Zionism.[7] [8] During the 1930's, in cooperation with the German authorities, Zionist groups organized a network of some 40 camps throughout Germany where prospective settlers were trained for their new lives in Palestine. As late as 1942 Zionists operated at least one of these officially authorized "Kibbutz" training camps[9] over which flew the blue and white banner which would one day be adopted as the national flag of "Israel".[10]

    The Transfer Agreement (which promoted the emigration of German Jews to Palestine) implemented in 1933 and abandoned at the beginning of WWII is an important example of the cooperation between Hitler's Germany and international Zionism. [11] Through this agreement, Hitler's Third Reich did more than any other government during the 1930's to support Jewish development in Palestine and further the Zionist goals.

  • 5 years ago

    In 333 advert (CE) the Council of Nicea, referred to as by Emperor Constantine, made lending money (for profit) a sin, known as usury. That meant that Christians could now not be bankers. To nowadays, most family-owned banks in Europe are owned by Jewish households. This made Jews convenient goals in the course of financial down-turns. When a family went to personal loan a farm, they needed to go to a Jew. Once they defaulted on the mortgage, it was once a Jew who took possession. When factories closed and individuals misplaced jobs, it was once the Jew who was once noticeable as profitting. Germany was so badly off, throughout the first-rate depression, that German marks have been used as wallpaper considering that that they had so little worth. It was once convenient in charge Jews, although, Germany's Jews got here from each classification and had fought in WW I. Hitler knew that, however used to be so full of hatred that he and his followers lost sight of that!

  • 8 years ago

    Probably more were aware of the Holocaust than what is commonly accepted IMHO. However Hitler himself said in 1933 that if they knew what he planned, they never would have never voted Nazi.

    Source(s): The first point I will say because given that their Jewish neighbours disappeared and then their household goods were sold off cheap-they would have to be stupidly naive/willfully blind to think they had all gone to a holiday camp. If they wanted to know, they could know. The second comes from Hitler's table talk.
  • Irv S
    Lv 7
    8 years ago

    They might have been unaware of the systematic murder, but could

    hardly have believed that serious abuses were absent.

    That 'elimination' of designated population segments was open policy.

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  • 8 years ago

    Would Yahoo ban me if I were to say... The Holocaust was a HOAX?

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