[Gay State Conservative]

For the most part I'm inclined to hold the higher ranks and higher civilian officials responsible.Many (if not most) of the ordinary soldiers committing these atrocities were brought up from a very impressionable age in the Hitler Youth...a training ground for psychopaths of the future.Add to that the fear (probably appropriate) of serious reprisals for “leniency”....

[1010RD]

This is something that is happening in America. How many black on white crimes are rationalized as victims lashing out? Every gradeschooler “knows” America is a destructive force in the world. Under the correct circumstances ordinary people can rationalize terrible crimes. This isn’t a German problem.