When did the Allies first learn about the concentration camps?

“The major powers commented [on the mass murder of Jews] two-and-a-half years before it is generally assumed,” Dan Plesch, author of the newly published Human Rights After Hitler, told The Independent. read more

The first German concentration camps began in 1936 called Berlin-Marzahn, for the Romaine (Gypsies) around Berlin. Both Britain and France were aware of it before the war. The additional camps became known almost as soon as they became operational. read more

First, the Allies had close contacts with Polish resistance organisations who kept them informed about the concentration of Jews in ghettoes and camps in the General Government, and the Final Solution when it started in early 1942. read more