When I hear about North Korea and the concentration camps present there, I am horrified by how little the rest of the world seems to care about stopping them. The information is there, but few people actually know anything about it. The news doesn't report it, and there is little movement to stop it.
Which made me wonder how much the rest of the world's general public knew about concentration camps in Germany during WWII.
Was it public knowledge? Was it reported on? How proactive was the public in stopping it?
There was some idea that some sort of camps existed but the scale and reality of them was rather unknown, further, propaganda in particularly the USA made a decision to not publicise what was known of the horror of the camps as it was believed that this sort of propaganda wouldn't be the most effective as it was seen that Americans weren't exactly sympathetic to Jews; Shocking.
No sources on me at the moment but I will get them later :)