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The total resistance to Hitler could be put on a school bus -
with plenty of empty seats?
Shame on them - shame on the Germans.

I've had the same thought.
Even with my substantial genetic heritage from the Germanic regions.

All I think is that after making sure enough "enemies of the state"
disappear, most of the populace cowers and submits.

Especially in a culture that prized order and disdains disorder.

And that once enough of the "outliers" are dispatched/exiled,
the fundamental decency of a country evaporates.
I'm not Catholic, but that seemed to me the general idea of
what Pope John Paul II said about Poland after it was spiritually
mashed by Facism from the west and Communism from the east.

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Especially in a culture that prized order and disdains disorder.

Yes, the trains were cleaned every day -

the stations had flowers in window boxes,

and children were shipped in cattle cars to their deaths.

Germans are the spiritual filth of the world - there aren't enough clean kitchens or orderly streets, or matching flower gardens to cover that stench.

And like you I have "substantial genetic heritage from the Germanic regions".