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Originally Posted by IvySpice
Largely because Jews wouldn't get on the trains if they knew where they were going. It was critical to keep up the illusion that there would be a life in camp: labeling the luggage, etc. But everyone in Europe knew that Jews (and Gypsies, and gays, and Communists, etc.) were being tormented in every possible way short of gassing them -- they were kicked out of their homes, schools and businesses, branded, segregated, rounded up, and deported. Frankly, you didn't need to know that they were being gassed to know that a gigantic crime and outrage against humanity was being perpetrated. It was well known, and it was tolerated.
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Please explain to me how it was "tolerated". Please do. I am dumbfounded that you think the Holocaust was socially accepted simply because there were no negative consequences towards those who disagreed with it. To be honest, I'll disagree with that as well....strongly. There were thousands upon thousands of people in Germany that were put on trial, deported, or executed for operating as opponents towards the regime or those who verged on dissent. In the political realms of Germany, high end non-Jewish politicians who opposed the Nazi party only had their lives spared because they stayed clear of organized opposition. To say that their were no negative consequences is very ignorant. Futhermore, I don't think it is accurate to assume that if the Jews knew about the Final Solution they simply wouldn't "get on the trains". Do you honestly think the Einsatzgruppen wouldn't have simply forced them on? I have to think they could simply out of fear of being executed if they didn't comply.
You should read up on Ernst Nolte. Excellent works on comparative history between the Nazi and Soviet Regimes.