Can I tell you a story?

[Jimvanhise]

3. THE POST WAR GERMAN GOVERNMENT TRIED TO COVER UP

After the war, the new German government tried to hide the facts of the Jewish holocaust because they thought it would harm them on the new world stage. The Nuremburg Trials were literally the tip of the iceberg. It wasn't until the 1960s that concentration camp survivors started getting their stories told. As the war was ending, German officers tried to destroy all records of what they had done but the allies found out and retrieved them and created a huge warehouse of those records in Berlin. A German policeman began investigating the concentration camp stories and he went to the American command in Berlin who took him to a warehouse and explained, "The Germans wrote down everything they did, no matter how horrible, because they wanted to impress their superiors." That's when they started hunting down the worst of the Nazis even though many had fled to South America. A German language movie was made about this several years ago.