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January 16, 2018

From a German Dissenter’s Diary Comes a Sense of What Ordinary Germans Knew about the Holocaust

They knew enough.

In 1939, Friedrich Kellner, a German opponent of Hitler, began to document his impressions of the Nazi regime and its crimes. The resulting diary was published in German in 2011, and will soon become available in English. Among other things, the text offers evidence of what ordinary citizens of the Third Reich knew about their government’s activities. Matt Lebovic writes:

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