Contemporary knowledge of the Holocaust

The question of how much Germans and other Europeans knew about the Holocaust while it was ongoing continues to be debated by historians.[3][4][5] Sönke Neitzel wrote in his book Soldaten: On Fighting, Killing and Dying that transcripts of conversations between German POWs prove that "practically all German soldiers knew or suspected that Jews were being murdered en masse".[6]

Jews are deported from Würzburg, 25 April 1942. Deportation occurred in public and was witnessed by many Germans.[1][2]

After the war, many Germans claimed that they were ignorant of the crimes perpetrated by the Nazi regime.[3]

References
  1. Confino 2014, pp. 214–215.
  2. Herf 2006, p. 122.
  3. Wiesen, S. J. (1 January 2007). "The Jewish Enemy: Nazi Propaganda during World War II and the Holocaust, Jeffrey Herf (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2006), cloth $29.95". Holocaust and Genocide Studies. 21 (2): 303–305. doi:10.1093/hgs/dcm024.
  4. van der Boom, Bart (2017). ""The Auschwitz reservation": Dutch Victims and Bystanders and Their Knowledge of the Holocaust". Holocaust and Genocide Studies. 31 (3): 385–407. doi:10.1093/hgs/dcx042.
  5. Fritzsche, Peter (September 2008). "The Holocaust and the Knowledge of Murder". The Journal of Modern History. 80 (3): 594–613. doi:10.1086/589592.
  6. "German army was a 'criminal organization'". The Canadian Jewish News. 30 November 1. Retrieved 15 June 2020. Check date values in: |date= (help)

Further reading
  • Bankier, David (1996). The Germans and the Final Solution: Public Opinion Under Nazism. Wiley. ISBN 978-0-631-20100-7.
  • Bauer, Yehuda (1994). Jews for Sale?: Nazi-Jewish Negotiations, 1933-1945. Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0-300-06852-8.
  • Confino, Alon (2014). A World Without Jews: The Nazi Imagination from Persecution to Genocide. Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0-300-19046-5.
  • Gordon, Sarah Ann (1984). Hitler, Germans, and the "Jewish Question". Princeton University Press. ISBN 978-0-691-10162-0.
  • Herf, Jeffrey (2006). The Jewish Enemy: Nazi Propaganda during the World War II and the Holocaust. Harvard University Press. ISBN 978-0-674038-59-2.
  • Jersak, Tobias (2008) [2004]. "Decisions to Murder and to Lie: German War Society and the Holocaust". German Wartime Society 1939-1945: Politicization, Disintegration, and the Struggle for Survival. Germany and the Second World War. IX/I. Clarendon Press. pp. 287–370. ISBN 978-0-19-160860-5.
  • Kershaw, Ian (2008). Hitler, the Germans, and the Final Solution. Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0-300-14823-7.
  • Koonz, Claudia (2003). The Nazi Conscience. Harvard University Press. ISBN 978-0-674-01172-4.
  • Longerich, Peter (2009). "Davon haben wir nichts gewusst!": Die Deutschen und die Judenverfolgung 1933–1945 ["We didn't know about that!": The Germans and the persecution of the Jews 1933–1945] (in German). Siedler Verlag. ISBN 978-3-641-02398-0.
  • Neitzel, Sonke; Welzer, Harald (2012). Soldiers: German POWs on Fighting, Killing, and Dying. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. ISBN 978-0-307-95815-0.
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