How can the nation that gave us Beethoven and Goethe give us the Nazis?. How can the nation that bred Hitler be the same that bred Mozart?.
Also, the atmosphere of the First World War produced ideas of the embattled Germans, set upon by the rest of the world, which only became more inflamed with hyperinflation and the Great Depression.
Arguably, if France had lost instead of Germany you might have seen a movement not so very different arise there.
You breed animals. You raise humans.
Every generation, Western civilization is invaded by barbarians – we call them “children
Look to the parents. They are suppose to raise their little savages and shape them into a caring human adult. All too often they fail to do their job. When enough of them slack off great atrocities happen.