What did Hitler know about the Holocaust?

Answer 1

I been looking things up on the internet and i found out that people from different places around the world told people in the U.S about what was going on. The people that got the information then told other people about what the heard.

Put it this way: When Belsen was relieved in 1945 the troops who discovered what was happening there were horrified and astounded. They were wholly unaware. The Russians had already liberated Aushwitz & other death camps in Poland. They had said Nothing about it to the Western powers. It would be amazing to think that there was knowledge of the scale of what had happened in this time. Even ordinary Germans had very good reason to not know, or want to know, of the fate of millions of thir former neighbours. Such was the power of the Nazi state.

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It is quite inaccurate to suggest that the Soviet Union hid the horrors they found in the extermination camps that they liberated in Poland. Shortly after the liberation of Majdanek in July 1944 the Soviet Army called an international press conference, and journalists from the U.S. (among other countries) were present (in August) and took photos of the camp and of survivors.

I have a pamphlet published in Britain in 1943 which has three articles about Nazi atrocities, including one specifically on the extermination of the Jews. (The pamphlet is not some clandestine publication and was readily available).

There is obviously a huge difference between what is reported and what actually registers with people.

Answer 2

Hitler discussed the 'Final Solution' with Goering, Goebbels and Himmler in 1941. (The first two recorded the fact in their diaries at the time). The idea that he didn't know is just fantasy. Obviously nobody claims that he knew every single detail, but Hitler was the driving force behind the Holocaust.

Answer 3

He knew everything about it as he was the one who made the Holocaust happen.

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It is really only speculayive to say what he knew about as no paper trail exists going up to him and although we are sure that Himmler informed him about the Holocaust, Himmler did not mention it in his diary.

What we do have is meetings between them that coincided with major events.

It is quite sure that he knew about (and approved of ) the mobile killing squads during the invasion of the Soviet Union as they were an evolution on one of his ideas. With regards to the camps, he did not like the idea of using Jewish labour, but otherwise he did not care about the details, so long as they were eliminated from society.

Answer 4

Hitler, high-ranking Nazis, members of the military that participated knew about it. The German public knew Jews were disappearing, but didn't know what was happening to them.

Answer 5

Yes, but we wanted to stay neutral in the war so we did nothing but send war supplies over to the Allies.

Answer 6

In general terms, yes; but people did not know all the details till after World War 2.

Answer 7

I'm pretty certain the Americans fought against the German, so I'm fairly certain that the Americans knew about the holocaust.

Answer 8

Yes, it knew but did not want to know.