[cardinal4]

*shudder* I have a morbid fascination with the Holocaust. I just never understood how so many people went along with it..

[nicmarlo]

I don’t either. Severe human weakness in some cases, I think. There were some heroes made at that time saving many Jews and other ‘undesirables,’ too many we probably don’t even know about, but not enough took that road. When someone believes that they’re ‘only one man’ (or woman or child) and what could they possibly do to leave their mark (good or bad)....you can come back to this atrocity in mankind and point to both good and evil examples.

[vladimir998]

Per your morbid fascination, I have two books for you: http://www.amazon.com/Am-Murderer-Testament-Jewish-Policeman/dp/0813327024/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1348431701&sr=1-1&keywords=am+i+a+murderer

http://www.amazon.com/Theory-Practice-Hell-German-Concentration/dp/0374529922/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1348431824&sr=1-1&keywords=theory+and+practice+of+hell

[AppyPappy]

I just never understood how so many people went along with it..

Really? It's still happening today. It wouldn't take much for Muslims to eradicate Christians in their countries. Rwanda is another. The Germans just made it a sophisticated endeavor.

[jmacusa]

The SS guards used to joke that Auschwitz was the place where ‘’the Jews come in the gate and go out the chimney’’. Till the day I die I’ll never understand how the German people and others went along with this.

[paddles]

"If you can make them believe absurdities, you can make them commit atrocities."

--Voltaire