My grandma worked for the Nazis near a bad concentration camp near the end of WW2. She knew that it was “bad” in the camp. And when she got some really malnourished “rapists and murderers” to help with moving some furniture she didn’t associate them with the camp.

The worst she experienced was a Jewish secretary being murdered by her boss because he “lost his temper”. Happened while she was away so she didn’t know more.

And by her account most of the guys were huge idiots. And still she only found out about the real extent of the camps after the war.

Lol, no, sorry to say that, but your grandma was a collaborationist and she most certainly knew what was happening, she surely just pretended otherwise to escape judgement.

She was naive. She asked a friend who was about to have an audience with Hitler to tell him about how undersupplied the camp in Minsk is. Because in her mind surely the Führer wouldn’t let these people needlessly suffer. Hitler told the friend not to listen to “those rumors”.

No one is THAT stupid without a significant amount of denial or complicity.

She did not call them rapists and murderers. That’s what they told her. That’s the lie they told people outside of the camps to justify any cruelty. In this instance the extended lie was that they were coming from some other “normal” prison and not from the camp.

Ok, my bad, I thought she called them “rapists and murderer”