[familyop]

"...how could a supposedly advanced culture commit these kinds of atrocities?"

Well, long before WWII, many Europeans started with implications that "the Jews killed G[-]d," generalizations that "Jews are communists," that they were non-believers, comments that they'd convert or go to hell and the like.

[GOPPachyderm]

It is unthinkable that an enlightened people could treat other people this way. Certainly not the acts of people who understand the scriptural command to love others and speak the truth in love.