Question
Read the excerpt from a statement by Private First-Class Alex Schoenberg, who was a US soldier.
We mentioned one thing to a German family in a town we had taken, that there was a concentration camp about four and a half miles from where they lived and they acted very surprised. They didn’t know about it. But they did know, they did know about it. They had to be blind or dead not to know about it. They saw cars and trucks going there and cars and trucks coming back. Cars and trucks going with people on them and the trucks retuned with no people on them.
Why did the soldiers think the family was not telling the truth?
The people were not very good at lying about what they had seen.
The people lived so close that they had to have worked at the camp.
The people helped transport prisoners to the camps with their cars and trucks.
The people had to have seen prisoners going to the camp and not coming back.
We mentioned one thing to a German family in a town we had taken, that there was a concentration camp about four and a half miles from where they lived and they acted very surprised. They didn’t know about it. But they did know, they did know about it. They had to be blind or dead not to know about it. They saw cars and trucks going there and cars and trucks coming back. Cars and trucks going with people on them and the trucks retuned with no people on them.
Why did the soldiers think the family was not telling the truth?
The people were not very good at lying about what they had seen.
The people lived so close that they had to have worked at the camp.
The people helped transport prisoners to the camps with their cars and trucks.
The people had to have seen prisoners going to the camp and not coming back.
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The soldiers thought the family was not telling the truth because "the people had to have seen prisoners going to the camp and not coming back." The soldiers believed that, given the proximity of the concentration camp and the traffic they observed, the family must have been aware of its existence and the grim realities associated with it, despite their claims of surprise.