Originally Posted by
Aldaris
If you wanted to have an evidence-based discussion, you should have sticked to the standard I've set in my first reply. Unsuprisingly, you couldn't hold with it, neither in manners nor scrutiny, so don't expect me to give you a free pass for your childish behavior. So, let me tackle this one by one. If you're not a qualified expert in the field, I can just refer to the consensus of mainstream historians and call it a day, especially if you provide nothing but anecdotal claims with no peer-reviewed literature behind them. My position isn't the dishonest one, since I can back up my claims with references to top-level historians. If you feel you can do the same, go ahead, but let's stick to a proper methodology. But I don't think you know how this works, so I can at least give you the fact that you're just ignorant, not deliberately dishonest. Congratz on that. As for what public and the world knew about the Holocaust during the war. Nobody claims that the every detail and the whole extent of this industrial level extermination was publicly known, but the Germans had a pretty good idea that some degree of mass killings, internment camps and slave labor were all going on, by colloquial standards. Of course there were intelligence operations in action, those are all about getting a last piece of information correct - good chunk of it was indeed highly classified, that's why they were ongoing in the first place, but that doesn't equal 'no idea at all'.