(July 21, 2023 at 6:21 pm)Anomalocaris Wrote: the degree to which ordinary germans civilians and soldiers knew and condoned nazi war crimes and holocaust were also probably underestimated in popular perception due to systematic effort to white wash them to more smoothly transition west germany into the western camp during the cold war, and to better demonize the eastern camp. certainly the clean Wehrmacht myth has come unglued since the end of the cold war.
Or it may not have been done like that.
