How Did Hitler Affect White Germans?

[Pat Mustard]

It has occurred to me that in November we may be asked to choose between Miss WikiLeaks or the Hitlerian reincarnation.  In that case voters may very well choose fascism over compromised national security. This would not be the case if Americans feared fascism as much as they do socialism.  My fear is that many white Americans may not feel they have anything to fear from a police state. After all, they are white. The police are here to serve and protect them.

But I wonder is this true? How did Hitler affect white Germans?  What is the cost of a brown shirt?

If you were the wrong religion, political ethos, sexuality, considered "habitually criminal", had mental or physical problems, too avant garde in art, unwilling to divorce your Jewish spouse or even just simply not able to make all the "voluntary" contributions by the SA and other party organs, it could go very badly for you, up to and including either being gassed or worked to death in a KZ.

Anybody who deviated noticably from party lines was persona non grata in Hitler's reich.

PS: I forgot ethnicity, there were millions of Poles, Russians, Ukrainians and other eastern europeans killed during WW2. I'm reading Richard J Evan's third book on the Third Reich now, "The Third Reich at War" and I'm at the point where he talks about what happened to people the Nazis called "life unworthy of life" during the war, and it turns out at least 80,000 German citizens with physical or mental incapacities were gassed from 1940 onwards, and were the main proving test cases (that sounds really callous, I don't mean it that way sorry) for what later became the holocaust.