people's awareness of concentration camps

by [deleted]

I was just wondering how much the general public knew, mainly outside of Germany, about the concentration and extermination camps in World War 2. Surely if a proportion of the German population were aware of their existence, the news would have filtered through to other countries? Of course, all the Allies could try to do was defeat Germany and their allies, but one would have thought the population in, say, the UK would have known. Thank you!

Georgy_K_Zhukov

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