(July 21, 2023 at 8:58 pm)Anomalocaris Wrote: On the other hand, research since the end of Cold War in Germany and in the archives of former eastern block states seems to show the german army’s complicity in the war crime on the eastern front and in the holocaust had been vastly underestimated in accounts of the war circulated in the west during the Cold War, to the extent that the german soldier who served on the eastern front but who didn’t participate in or saw some war crime or crime associated with holocaust committed by his unit would have been the rare exception. Taken in the context that over 10% of pre-war German population served in the german army on the eastern front during World War Two,, it would seem to imply limited knowledge of german war crimes and holocaust amongst the general population in Germany is quite implausible.
Sure, and no real argument, but I had thought he was implying direct knowledge.
