The excerpt is from witness testimony at the nuremberg trials. dr. marx: you said before that the german people must have known of the happenings in auschwitz. what are your grounds for this statement? vaillant-couturier: i have already told you: to begin with there was the fact that, when we left, the lorraine soldiers . . who were taking us to auschwitz said to us, "if you knew where you were going, you would not be in such a hurry to get there.” –testimony of marie claude vaillant-couturier what did this type of testimony prosecutors to prove? the holocaust and other war crimes were well-known. v the holocaust and other war crimes were not well-known. x the mistreatment of prisoners of war was well-known. x the mistreatment of civilians in labor camps was not well-known. x

the correct answer is A

The Holocaust and other war crimes were well-known

It proves that the killing of jews in concentration camps was well known in Germany, as it was known by other countries as the allies. It was only a matter of choice that The allies did not nmove to assist the Jews as they felt the task of defeating Hitler was at hand and the most immediate.

the Holocaust and other war crimes were well-known. V

Explanation:

The Nuremberg Trials or Proceedings of Nuremberg (in German, Nürnberger Prozesse) were a set of jurisdictional processes undertaken at the initiative of the victorious allied nations at the end of the Second World War, in which the responsibilities of leaders, officials were determined and sanctioned and collaborators of the National Socialist regime of Adolf Hitler in the different crimes and abuses against humanity committed in the name of the Third German Reich from September 1, 1939 until the fall of the regime in May 1945.

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