Comment Re:I'm sure the Jews in Germany though... (Score 1) 333
In this case it's not even right, Jews in Germany definitely knew they had things to hide, and some had been trying to hide their Jewishness for hundreds of years before WW2.
As far as we know today that isn't quite true. Jews in Germany were generally integrated extremely well, they felt "German", they had fought for the Reich in WW1,
There is a huge debate among historians whether this attitude (instead of a "fight back or run" attitude) enabled the Holocaust, whether a crime on that scale would even have been possible if the victims had not walked like cattle to the slaughterhouse, deluded by their feelings of patriotism, and if Jewish organizations did commit a grave mistake by not taking reports from concentration camps more seriously and publicizing them instead of trying to get along well with the German authorities and trying not to give any cause for offense.