Hey guys! So for context, I've been working on writing a story for a comic book for quite a while, and I’ve been tossing around this idea of having a character who fought for Germany during World War II. However, he was unaware of the true breadth of the atrocities committed by the Nazi regime at large until it was too late, and then had to carry that guilt with him for the rest of his life. My question, though, is - would this actually be plausible? I’ve heard rumors that a lot of soldiers who fought for Germany in World War II didn’t actually know how bad Hitler and the high-ranking Nazis actually were, but I don’t know if there’s any truth to these claims. So I was going to ask: Did the German soldiers know what was really going on throughout the war, or were they kept in the dark about it? Obviously groups like the SS had to have known because they were the ones who did a lot of the actual persecution of Jews and other people in the Concentration Camps, but just for a run-of-the-mill marine or air force or navy member, how much did they actually know about what was going on?