Concentration camps

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I have been watching the series 'Band of brothers ' written and based on accounts from survivors of an American parachute regiment during the world war. I have just finished the episode where they find their first concentration camp. Everyone is walking around with hankies over their mouths because of the smell ( dead and dying people piled up everywhere). The regiment raid a Bakers for bread to feed the prisoners and the baker along with the residents of the near by town claimed that the Americans were exaggerating and that the death camp didn't exist. Is it possible they lived so close to that much death and decay and were not aware of the smell or it's presence or do you think was a case of they CHOSE not to notice it ? I would strongly recommend watching the series as it certainly provokes feelings of disgust at what man is capable of as well as very informative on what the war was like as a soldier.