Timothy SnyderThe vast majority of Jews killed in the Holocaust never saw a concentration camp.
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The vast majority of Jews killed in the Holocaust never saw a concentration camp. When asked what they thought of the mass extermination of Jews, most didn’t seem to care. A few tried to help their friends and family escape. Some gave money to people who were starving.
But they tended to see this as their problem, not the world’s. They weren’t trying to save the world or even their own families or fellow Jews. Most had no idea that they were part of an ongoing atrocity.
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