B) The 'final solution' stuff did not happen until much later ie. i) scale and ii) death
C) That was in 1930. There was barely radio. There was no 'globalism' or 'global news'. There was no global awareness. What 'went on in Germany' might have been going on on mars.
It's 2019 now, China has no excuse, and we have no excuse.
Well, I guess the question is : if things were so much different in the 30s, and it was stalled by the lack of global information awareness, why are we (humans on earth) complicit with the camps that exist now-a-days (and in more places than just China.)?
There are some 'dark spots' in the world where this happens, but there, it's chaos: Syria, Congo, Somalia.
The reason we don't hear about it from China is exactly the basis of the article: China has everyone in fear of them.
China speaks with one voice, the West with thousands: political leaders, CEO's, NGOs, deans of big schools - in the West nobody really has that much power - and China is hyper aggressive in pursuing their power everywhere, and in everything.
CEO's will never hint a word, they don't need to be told to shut up because they want money.
Politicians, sadly are spooked, mostly for economic reasons as well. Governments are very afraid to speak out due to fear or the response. Germany sells a lot of high end gear to China.
Airlines that use the actual name of Taiwan for example are threatened with not being able to fly in China.
The head of the student union at Ryserson in Toronto is Tibetan, and this drew mass outrage from the Chines 'expat' community, it was fierce and organized from back home.
Consider that 'Tibet' used to be a huge thing in Hollywood/Cali 20 years ago, now magically everyone has just 'shut up' about it. If any political group or state even mentions the Dalai Lama, China screams. So we haven't heard about him in a while.
Almost everyone is afraid to speak out, so it only happens behind closed doors.
Trump, oddly, is one of the few people with both the power and wherewithal to say things but I don't think he cares: if negotiations are going bad with China he'll scream murder, if negotiations are going well, he'll talk about China as such a great partner in peace etc..
The issue of the concentration camps in China is met with strong force and intimidation the world over.
And sadly, it's pretty easy not to care.
Chaplin did The Great Dictator a few years after that. Let's not pretend 1930 was the stone age.
https://www.currentaffairs.org/2018/07/how-horrific-things-c...
https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/10903
> Throughout World War II, the American media published and broadcast timely, detailed, and accurate accounts of what was happening to the Jews in Europe. The New York Times alone printed nearly 1,200 articles about what we have now come to call the Holocaust, about one every other day.
> The articles in the Times and elsewhere described the propagation of anti-Semitic laws in German allied countries; death from disease and starvation of hundreds of thousands in ghettos and labor camps; mass executions in Nazi-occupied Russia; and mass gassings in Auschwitz, Treblinka, and Maidanek. The articles also indicated that these were not isolated incidents, but part of a systematic campaign to kill all the Jews in Europe.
> And yet, at the end of the war and for decades afterward, Americans claimed they did not know about the Holocaust as it was happening. How was it possible for so much information to be available in the mass media and yet simultaneously for the public to be ignorant?
> The reason is that the American media in general and the New York Times in particular never treated the Holocaust as an important news story. From the start of the war in Europe to its end nearly six years later, the story of the Holocaust made the Times front page only 26 times out of 24,000 front-page stories, and most of those stories referred to the victims as “refugees” or “persecuted minorities.” In only six of those stories were Jews identified on page one as the primary victims.
Also - I wouldn't meant to indicate that 'nobody knew that Jews were having trouble in Germany' - but rather the true horrors of the situation.
The 'final solution' was not fully on until the world was fully at war, essentially. Millions of people are dying all over the world ... and Americans started fighting and dying on mass (i.e. front page news, and everyone knows someone personally who's dead) - this is going to be the visceral thing people are concerned with. The 'holocaust' is only a chapter of that.
There was no reference point for 'death camps' - since American Japanese were interned in camps - I suggest that's probably what many were thinking of.
And before the war, during the 1930's ... this was an international issue. Very few of the proles are concerned with international affairs. Internment of the Jews in the 1930's I think would be comparable to victims of African wing of ISIS etc. It's tragic, but it's not something we reference every day.
And of course - farmers and townsfolk don't read the NYT! There was no 'mass media' as we know it. No television. Unless it was on some kind of national broadcast, constantly, it was not going to be in the hearts and minds of regular people.
And of course, once the 'final solution' was scaled up - Americans were doing something about it, they were literally fighting and dying while liberating such camps (!). So I'm doubtful of the premise that Americans 'knew but didn't care' while they were quite actively working against the Nazis.