Is there free speech in Belfast?

[abaris]

I'm not being judgemental either, people do strange shit....but cowardice....take a look at those clips again.  They were positively -excited-...and why not, they'd become a world power effectively overnight, and had cast off the ruinous treaty of versailles.......  shrugs.

Yes, but they didn't stand for outright killing the jews. There's a reason why Hitler didn't make that public. A portion, however large, were OK with removing them from the public eye, but they didn't think of murder. As is shown by Himmler's speech at Posen in october of 1943. He was adressing SS-Leaders and made it very clear that secrecy was warranted. Speech with subtitles can be found on youtube.

People knew or at least suspected. They knew what concentration camps stood for and they heard the testimonies of soldiers on leave. But they turned a blind eye, partly because they were afraid, partly because they didn't want to know, partly because of both. That's the textbook definition of cowardice, but again, not being in that kind of situation, who am I to judge.