>I agree. Of course, was it known (or only suspected) that Jews were being put to death then? There was a period of time when the public knew they were being gathered up and sent to work camps, but not that they were being killed. I'm not sure, I have to look it all back up again. Chances are, the public may not have known, but the governments all probably did (or had enough reason to believe it was so).
The US government certainly knew well before the camps were liberated. I don't remember exactly when they knew, but it was well before the war ended. (A vague memory says sometime in '42, but I'm not sure that's right.)

Tamar