re: #57 goddamnedfrank

Yes they did. Everyone in Germany knew what was going on.

Nope. Unless by “what’s going on” you simply mean the existence of some camps.

Of course everybody knew about the existence of concentration camps as such - Dachau was opened in 1933. Nobody made a secret of the mere existence of the camps.
What was officially a secret were the goings-on inside the camps, namely mistreatment of prisoners, experiments, etc. It was not advertised and when rumors got around, it was despite the intention of the Nazis.

And mass murder in far away extermination camps (which are not to be confused with “normal” concentration camps) is a wholly different cup of tea, and the same principle holds - the Nazis did try to keep things secret (in vain). (And certainly rumors about mass murder would fly around. But rumors are not the same as knowledge. Only a minority would actually know - from their relatives or friends in Einsatzgruppen, etc.)