One of the strangest things that I discovered living in Europe (and having visited Auschwitz more than 6 times and the Terezin Ghetto more than a dozen times) is that there is a tendency to pretend that the “Nazis” were solely responsible for the atrocities, and that, somehow, “Nazi” and “German” can easily be divorced. I’ve encountered this surreal separation of semantics many, many times.
Little boys were required by law to join the Hitler Jugend - technically, that made them Nazi’s.
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