Just 14 years after the end of WWII, this episode of "To Tell the Truth" aired on TV. The person claims he escaped from 4 different Nazi concentration camps.
He was Romanian. Was he also Jewish? Strange, he didn't say, and nobody asked.
NO MENTION AT ALL about anything Jewish. No mention about gas chambers. No mention about mass genocide. No lampshades or soap. Nothing.
One of the panelists, Kitty Carlisle, was Jewish. In fact, a German-Jew. Another panelist, Tom Poston, was a pilot in WWII in Europe.
Not a single whisper of gas chambers, genocide, and no .... 6,000,000 ... anything. No moment of silence to mourn all the lost souls. NOTHING. Just a fun-loving comedy game show.
So, one man escaped from 4 different camps. He claimed that he was the ONLY man who ever escaped from 1 of them -- which means that several people must have escaped from the other 3.
Quite the "death camps" if people were wandering out from time to time.
After he escaped once, and definitely twice, why didn't they just shoot him? Why did he survive and do all the things he did after escaping the notorius Nazi regime? Actually, he didn't even try to flee Romania while the Nazis were in town. He got the hell out when the Soviets rolled in.
Weird, huh?
(The segment starts at 16:55 if you want to wach it.)
What’s your theory, OP?
Well, considering that there was a comedy TV show about a Nazi prison camp in the 1960's, it seems unlikely that the people living in that era had any idea of the Holocaust as we think of it today. There would have been a lot of outrage over such a thing.
Some sources have said that the narrative we think of today -- 6,000,000 Jews gassed in Nazi camps -- is a narrative that did not really begin being pushed into the zeitgeist of Western culture until the 1970's. I think that is likely correct.
A few bullet points to consider: