What We Knew: Terror, Mass Murder, and Everyday Life in Nazi Germany: An Oral History | 
“But I really don‘t trust them [Germans]….
Singout What do you think of this quote? I‘m curious about more of the context. 3w
lil1inblue "So they all accepted it, silently." We just learn nothing from history. ? 3w
kspenmoll @Singout Rosa Hirsch was in the chapter titled “Jews Who Went Into Hiding. Her parents owned a tobacco store in Magdeburg, Germany. In 1941 they all went into hiding because they heard they were on the list for the next deportation. The authors interviewed over 200 jews & non jews in person & many others answered written surveys about their experiences under Hitler. The ⬇️ (edited) 3w
kspenmoll ⬆️ most telling were the questions about how much the German people knew about the mass murder of European jews while the Holocaust was going on. How & when did they come to know about it? This “study is first to ask systematically a large cross section of the Herman population, both Jewish & non-Jewish…about their brushes with Nazi terror…their knowledge about the mass murder of the Jews”. 3w
Singout That makes sense. Those are really important questions. I‘m listening to “One Day Everyone Will Always Have Been Against This” by Omar el Akkad, and he includes a vivid quote about people standing at the side during the Holocaust, smirking without either resisting the Nazis or actively participating in the destruction. One of my favourite books as a preteen was “The Devil in Vienna,” which paints an excellent picture of this. 3w
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