I didn't know
When I learned about the holocaust as teenager in Germany, many people from the Nazi era were still alive and lived all around me. Being the curious person I always was, I asked them about what happened and their role in it.
"I didn't know" was the boilerplate answer. And as they were relatives and friends, I believed them at first.
Then in 1981 we got a new teacher for history and he exposed the lie. Or more precise: he got us exposing those lies.
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CW: German Nazi History
Small anecdote about this from my own family. In the 1940s, my paternal grandmother was ordered to host a young man who had been a warden in one of the German Concentration Camps. That man had nightmares every night and when my grandmother mentioned this to a neighbor along the lines of "If Hitler weren't such a stuck up about the Jews, we wouldn't be in this pickle" she got rounded up by the Gestapo and questioned for a day, and only let go because my grandfather was at the Eastern Front and known to be a good citizen (i.e., fervent Nazi).
This is _the only story_ about the Nazi time I know about my grandparents. Everything else was stoic silence.
Everyone knew.
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