Sorry, I don't want to place this into the entertainment section.
There's apparently a new Guido Knopp documentary about Nazi Germany, in collaboration with History Channel.
You'll probably be able to watch it on History Channel (if you have that) in your native language soon.
Here's a link to the German language episode titled "We didn't know anything about it", which explores the question of how much Germans really knew about what the Nazi regime did to the Jews. The result is complex and differentiated; there were all sorts of people that knew about it, but many didn't until it was almost literally too late. Since many issues couldn't be discussed during the dictatorship w/o fear of death, people didn't talk about it a lot.
The episode contains colorized film clips from that time, and has apparently used some new material that hasn't been seen before.
One noteworthy aspect of that episode is that it quotes Hitler in film multiple times saying that the reason for the annihilation of the Jews would be that the "Jews of Finance" wanted to eliminate all European races by staging World War I, something I haven't heard before. I wonder if there is any evidence left that could support such a theory. One thing is for certain, that the Nazis wanted to shift the balance in banking power away from the Jews (which traditionally had been the only ones allowed to do banking since the Middle Ages (until when?) ).
Antisemitism was very widespread during those days in many parts of the world, and people also supported wars, often enthusiastically. The episode also mentions WWII as a "War against the Jews", which I heard for the first time. But I do wonder, why was it the Germans that (had to) fight it? I mean, it gave us a bad reputation for decades that generations of Germans afterwards had to deal with ... why did nobody stop Hitler until it was too late?
Some people that lived during those days are still saying they didn't know anything about it until after the war, and that they thought the Jews would be deported to labor camps and such. Others heard about it, though, but the deception of the public must've been enormous. During the final war years, the Allies even dropped pamphlets from planes describing the crimes, but it didn't lead to any riots, apparently, that could've overthrown the Nazi regime.
There's apparently a new Guido Knopp documentary about Nazi Germany, in collaboration with History Channel.
You'll probably be able to watch it on History Channel (if you have that) in your native language soon.
Here's a link to the German language episode titled "We didn't know anything about it", which explores the question of how much Germans really knew about what the Nazi regime did to the Jews. The result is complex and differentiated; there were all sorts of people that knew about it, but many didn't until it was almost literally too late. Since many issues couldn't be discussed during the dictatorship w/o fear of death, people didn't talk about it a lot.
The episode contains colorized film clips from that time, and has apparently used some new material that hasn't been seen before.
One noteworthy aspect of that episode is that it quotes Hitler in film multiple times saying that the reason for the annihilation of the Jews would be that the "Jews of Finance" wanted to eliminate all European races by staging World War I, something I haven't heard before. I wonder if there is any evidence left that could support such a theory. One thing is for certain, that the Nazis wanted to shift the balance in banking power away from the Jews (which traditionally had been the only ones allowed to do banking since the Middle Ages (until when?) ).
Antisemitism was very widespread during those days in many parts of the world, and people also supported wars, often enthusiastically. The episode also mentions WWII as a "War against the Jews", which I heard for the first time. But I do wonder, why was it the Germans that (had to) fight it? I mean, it gave us a bad reputation for decades that generations of Germans afterwards had to deal with ... why did nobody stop Hitler until it was too late?
Some people that lived during those days are still saying they didn't know anything about it until after the war, and that they thought the Jews would be deported to labor camps and such. Others heard about it, though, but the deception of the public must've been enormous. During the final war years, the Allies even dropped pamphlets from planes describing the crimes, but it didn't lead to any riots, apparently, that could've overthrown the Nazi regime.