Your posts disgust me. Nazis were/are pure evil subhuman vermin. Camps to murder men, women, children of those whose religion they disliked or who they considered outcasts from society? Their race is superior to others and they killed in the name of that? Conducting experiments on pregnant women, making soap from dead Jews and lampshades from their skin?
I believe you've been around FR for a while and never knew what a slime ball your are. Have a nice life. Good luck with the pathetic Nazi apoligism.
Like any other group of 60 million people, the Germans did not all share precisely the same set of beliefs. Some embraced the Nazi philosophy. Anti-Semitism was a feature for many people in Europe, not just Germany, and it’s still there.
Other Germans did not necessarily care for the Nazis, but were thrilled by the rebirth of German pride and strength, as anyone proud of his country and its traditions might feel after being defeated and humiliated in the way Germany was defeated in the First World War.
Most of the Germans just wanted to be left alone: to raise families, tend to their homes, and pursue their civilian careers. The identity of the political party in charge did not matter to them until it was too late. We see a lot of that attitude in America right now.
A few saw what was coming. Most of them ran like hell, and got out of the country before the war. Some stayed and, if they were found out, they were quickly killed or shipped off to one of the camps.
Lucius Cornelius Sulla is a good Freeper. He has a balanced view of history, like me, and he knows that not all Germans were evil. Far from it.
I guess it makes it easier for you to believe that the Nazis where something exceptional, when it is perfectly obvious that any people in a similar situation would have behaved the same way.
Camps to murder men, women, children of those whose religion they disliked or who they considered outcasts from society?
The USSR did the exact same thing, except that their motivation was social class.
Their race is superior to others and they killed in the name of that? Conducting experiments on pregnant women, making soap from dead Jews and lampshades from their skin?
The Japanese did much the same to the Chinese and to western POWs.
Sorry to rain on your parade, but if the new administration follows the desires of some of its political base you and I will find ourselves in a Gulag faster than you can say 'But the Nazis were monsters -- it can't happen here.'
As someone whom Hitler would have turned into a lampshade, I think that you are rather funny.