i have been there to several camps and knew survivors...both Jews and non Jewish
from Dachau mainly
the Nazis did it...you can argue over how many..it was a helluva lot regardless of where one comes down on a figure
the Nazis and their collaborators...some who were indeed opportunistic but in the end doomed Jewish traitors or kapos, some Catholics too...read about the Ustashi and Rome and so forth
think Manson family better organized with nice weapons and snappy uniforms and a more lucid ideology...”they walked in line”..anyone remember who sang that?..their name is yet another reference actually
National Socialists were bad folks and at the top they were a truly sick thug mafia of personally demented folks including ..surprise...a heck of a lot of queers...some of whom were serious about the final solution question
a sick sad end to 150 years of Continental Squabbles played out in a tragic Inferno way
and the Jews paid a helluva price for many reasons but not because they did it to themselves
these damned Arabs and non aligned sorts are sure daft
I have Czech relatives and we visited Dachau during the 60s when it was still under communist control. I was a boy, but I’ll never forget it.