In a dictatorship, telling the truth is a serious offense.
A late friend of mine lived in Vienna when the Nazis marched in. He saw the churches put out welcoming flags and signs.
He was continually beaten by the Gestapo as he was a leader of a Jewish athletic organization (a sokol group), mainly by Himmler’s men.
He finally got a visa to come to America as he had given his earlier one to his sister, who became trapped on a ship that went to Yugoslavia before a scheduled departure to America. She and almost a thousand Jewish passengers were shot by the Nazis before they could get out of the country.
Kurt Waldheim, the former leader of the UN as a Nazi war criminal.
My grandmother’s family came from Lemberg, then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire before being given to Poland and then the Ukraine over the years including WW2.
I just saw a film on where most of my European relatives were shot and buried during the Nazi-Ukrainian Fascist rule of that city.
It seems that Hitler won after all.
Especially after the passage of hate crime laws.