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Not so fun fact, post war surveys showed that sympathy for the Nazis actually rose among Germans following allied attempts like these. It was only after these faded and there was mass amnesty and economic conditions improved drastically did Germans come to terms with their past.
You can just see that guy, third one in on the fifth row (with two fingers up to his mouth) is going: “hmmm interesting, I wasn’t aware we could get free showers.”
They called him, Slow Hans.
Sad to say my wife’s mother was in one of those camps at 16 years old. Horrible
I have a family member that fought for Germany in the battle of Berlin in 1945 as a Volkssturm fighter. He was a WW1 veteran and an older man at the end of the war. My dad said he refused to speak about it much so we never really knew what his feelings were about the whole situation. Moved to Namibia sometime in the 60s.
Some of these men have the deepest resentment in their eyes for the things they did in the name of a ruler.
That long face on the medic up front on the right.
There are always a few with a smirk.
Those needed to be removed.
As they were getting off on it.
[Here](https://i.imgur.com/DbZP01N.jpg) is a higher quality and less cropped version of this image. [Here](https://www.ww2online.org/image/german-pows-viewing-footage-german-war-atrocities-new-york-city-july-1945) is the best source I could find.
> Photograph. German POWs, sitting in a movie theater in New York City, cover their faces while viewing footage of German murder camps. Official Caption: “Rome, 7/3/45–German prisoners shocked by atrocity pictures–This is a view of the moving pictures theater in the U.S. Army’s Halloran General Hospital in New York on June 26 when German prisoners of war were shown the official films of German murder camps. Many of the prisoners covered their eyes.–International news photo through OWI Radiophoto–approved by appropriate military authority–Serviced by Rome OWI (List C out) 6970.”Staten Island, New York. 03 July 1945
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[Here](https://i.imgur.com/C9lq8ht.jpg) is this scene from behind.
The movie Genghis Cohn explores the subject of public denial and secret retention of nazi ideology after the war. I give it all my stars.
One dude looking at the camera must have noticed the photographer- looks a bit like young Reagan.
Kinda weird to show this without comment, since German soldiers have committed humanities worst horrors in the east.
They werent “suprised” or anything.
There’s a motherfucker in top right that couldn’t give less of a shit
When the meth finally wears off and you realize the atrocities you have been committing.
Some of them are like “and?”
I just visited the “Auschwitz, Not Long Ago. Not Far Away” traveling exhibition. If you think you have any real sense of the scale of the Holocaust, trust me: you really don’t.
As a german, I still think, that almost everyone knew. Probably seeing it live was the shock, but there had to be rumours going around about it, so that everyone knew more or less what was going one.
I mean, even after the war the prosecution of former Nazis was embarassing and people even protested to let the Breda four out of jail (as an example). Pretty embarassing for the country, if you ask me. Still to this day, too many german are blind on the right eye….
The topic of Nazi ideology being secretly retained after the war and its public denial is examined in the film Genghis Cohn. It has my highest rating.
Fact…The western Allies treated the Germans far better than Germans imagined they would, and far better than the Germans would have treated them if things went the other way.
What’s the average life story of these men? What kind of country/environment did they grow up in? How would they identify themselves and how would that description change depending on the audience? I’m not familiar with German household culture of the time.
Why are there so many medics in this picture?
Like watching Morbius.
They were complicit. I hope it was torture for them. Clean Wehrmacht my ass.
The amount of people in this thread defending Nazis is too damn high.
You know some of were wondering “Oh God is this our future?” Because they might not have known how the Allies would treat them
As a German, we didn’t see pictures like these in school. Thanks for sharing.
This is a very intriguing photo.
This picture speaks volumes to what the every day German soldier knew about the atrocities being committed by party leaders. The look on each individual face sums it up . Some look indifferent but most are in a state of disbelief
Imagine finding out that *this* is what you were fighting for. That had to be a horrible realization for a lot of soldiers.
I think movies have greatly distorted our view on German soldiers in ww2. There’s a lot of audio books out there that tell the story from German soldiers pov. Many soldiers believed they were uniting Europe. I think it’s possible the vast majority of the German army didn’t know what was going on. It’s not like they were sending the final solution newsletters all over europe.
Episode 9 of Band of Brothers still makes me cry. Everytime.
I’ve been watching the series annually for 20 years
Now show folks the genocide that is happening in Gaza…