What many fail to recall is the massive propaganda and indoctrination campaign that had been going on for years prior to the first Jew or undesirable being sent to a camp.
Many of these folks were conditioned to believe these folks needed to be gone...
There was a program on not too long ago where Hitler had floated the idea early on his term as Fuhrer and was met with significant resistance...hence, Goebbels set about changing people’s perceptions and attitudes towards the eventual victims of the holocaust.
Slowly and inexorably, they went about changing the minds of the German people to “accept” what was to come.
These weren’t just ordinary folks plucked off the street...these were folks who had demonstrated a capacity towards doing the “work” with little to no remorse.
The SS Death Head’s Division was the worst of the worst, psycopaths more than likely. They had been taught to hate their “enemies” with no remorse, compassion and inflexible harshness.
In the last days of the war however, the regular SS personnel were released in order to attempt escape and Auxiliary SS conscripts from regular army units and other organizations were brought in to keep the camps operating.
This guy may be one of those Auxiliary SS guys...not that it’s really an excuse.
Please recall that Czechoslovakia was essentially sacrificed by Britain’s Neville Chamberlain in return for “peace in our time.” The Czechs, then, had to live in submission to their Nazi overlords. People in those circumstances sometimes have to make agonizing choices.