Were there Germans who denied the "Holocaust"?

Of course they were aware of the labour camps. Auschwitz was an industrial city that used inmate labour, kinda hard to miss. As for the mass killings?, well what we do know is that as the war progressed and the demands on German industry to keep the war machine functioning grew as more and more Germans died thereby putting pressure on the camps to remain productive.

Commandants were punished for abusing / stealing from the prisoners (any valuables were to go to the state).

The most famous example of this was the imprisonment of Ilse Koch (you know, the chick that chose inmates with the nicest skin to turn them into lamp shades) and the execution of her husband, Otto Koch after they were caught and convicted for stealing valuables and cruelty to prisoners by the allies the SS.

If these camps were really execution factories, wouldn't he have gotten a medal instead of a bullet for killing Jews?

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