Today marks the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, the concentration camp where 1.1 million people (90% of them Jews) died during the Holocaust. It is a somber day for many people, and for a lot of us, a piece of history that still has so many unanswered questions. One question that always comes up is why didn’t people intervene sooner? Did they just not know about the Holocaust? Sure, the internet didn’t exist yet, but people read papers and listened to the radio, so they must have understood what was going on.
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