My daughter was doing a report on the Holocaust (on her own, not taught in school yet). She asked my mom (94 last year, RIP) about the Holocaust, and she said that she didn’t know much about it. I am guessing that after the war most people were just glad to have their husbands home, etc. and put the awful things of the war behind them. (With the government’s and media’s help of course).
In the Freeper WW II posts with the old newspapers there are sometimes articles on the plight of the Jews in Germany, but they are few and don’t get the big headlines.
That's it and, oh yeah, by the way there was the Holocaust where 6 million Jews were murdered by the Nazis and their henchmen.
Had my late father NOT served in the USAAF, bombing Germany and had we kids NOT received a thorough grounding about that period and had we NOT been Jews, I think our knowledge and understanding would have been minimal.
The level of understanding about that period was negligible for my generation (1958), now, it is even less so. I think that is why Hollywood has taken it upon itself to produce so many WWII era films or miniseries since 1998 in order to educate kids that did not grow up in the shadow of WWII. For all my criticisms about Hollywood, that it one noble venture to their credit.