Why was the extermination of the jews kept secret?

by [deleted]

Why would the nazis keep so few offical documents and go to such trouble in hiding the extermination of the jews? Even going to the trouble of dismantling camps in some cases like Belzic?

Rrrrrrr777

It...wasn't. It's probably the most well-documented event in human history.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Holocaust_denial#Nazi_documentation