So you say it is a duty to risk your life under oppression. Dear Eastbound, have you ever lived in a dictatorship? Even as a foreign citizen under diplomatic immunity in Iran you can imagine how it is like to live in fear.
From what do you conclude that Hitler enforced the will of the German majority? He never got a majority for his party in a free parliamentary vote. He was appointed Chancellor by the President and built a coalition. There was never a vote "Do you want war with Poland". In fact, the mood was anxious and full of fear when WW2 started - and I take that from first-hand-reports. The people were still fed up with war 14 years after WW1. But that´s not what you get from the movies - the propaganda was excellent in persuading the foreign that Hitler was popular. He wasn´t. There were more than 40 known attempts to kill him - starting in the 20´s. Most Germans didn´t make "his choice" to live "as aggressors". The Nazis did so, sure. But the majority of Germans didn´t want the mass murder of Jews. Read reports of that time, from Jews and non-Jewish Germans. You will find out that many Jews say that their neighbours had too much fear to help them. It´s not that they didn´t want to. It´s that fear was stronger. I have understanding for people under fear. It´s not cowardly not to help them, but it´s heroic to do so. I have no understanding for cowards who deport or kill unarmed, hungry and depressed humans.
But, as FDR said, 'We have nothing to fear except fear itself.'
I'm not picking on Germans. I'm German too. What I said goes for any majority that allows its nation to choose aggression. You can't tell me that of all of the thousands upon thousands of armed troops and armed civilians in Germany that there was not one who didn't have the opportunity to blow Hitler's head off at close range. Didn't happen. Because of fear, or agreement and loyalty to the goals of aggression?
Ergo . . . .