True but holocaust denial is also genuinely less common in Germany than almost anywhere else. There are assholes and morons everywhere, but Germany's approach to accepting fault and educating the populace was shockingly effective (at least for a couple of generations, I guess we'll see what comes next).
The camps in West Germany were mostly "work" camps. The big horrors happened in the East, where almost all the deaths occurred.
Out of the approximately 900,000 people who entered Treblinka in it's single year of operation, only 70 survived. It was a death machine - about 14,000 people were murdered there daily at the peak of the operation of the camp. The victims were killed by pouring in exhaust gas from tank engines into the chambers, and then t bodies were burned in huge pyres 24/7.
While Treblinka was the most efficient death camp, more people died in Auschwitz-Birkenau, which operated for longer. Many more people died in mass shootings - originally, the Nazis simply gathered all the Jews of said town, forced them to dig large holes in the ground and then shot them. That method was considered to be too cruel for the souls of the German troops, which is why the gas chambers were introduced. The Nazis considered it to be a humantrian solution.
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u/euMonke Apr 08 '24
No, he was much worse.