This is what the European Union’s really about.
The Nazis provided a useful scapegoat for Europe: “see, it wasn’t us that killed those Jews! Hitler did it!” This made it possible for people to forget that most of Europe is anti-semitic and has been for two millennia.
Centralized government always produces this.
The mass hate and killing has been justified by ethnic group, religion and class. It has been created in the name of Marxism and Fascism and is empowered by envy. The centralized government has the machinery necessary to pull off genocide. It has the control over the media and education to produce the propaganda to justify it’s hate and murder.
Apathy? Cowardice? Secret satisfaction? Some, or all of the above attitudes?