RE: The enormity of WWII
July 21, 2023 at 7:21 pm
(This post was last modified: July 21, 2023 at 7:24 pm by Thumpalumpacus.)
(July 21, 2023 at 5:24 pm)Loaded dice Wrote: I know there was an entire tradition of antisemitism in the german society back then. The Nazis only needed some propaganda here and there to go from common forms of discrimination to actual physical extermination.
Antisemitism in Europe goes back much further than Germany, although it can be fairly said that the German variety took it to its farthest end.
(July 21, 2023 at 5:24 pm)Loaded dice Wrote: I don't believe the holocaust is the doing of a minority of germans. An operation of this scale couldn't have been done without cooperation at all levels of the german society.
I think this is one aspect of WWII that we will never really grasp. Who was brave enough to denounce Nazi policy publicly? It's true that many Germans were involved in the works supporting the Holocaust, from some railroad workers to IG Farben lab workers to Einsatzgruppen troops. The latter certainly knew. Some railroad workers definitely knew. But a majority of 70-million+ Germans were likely only aware of the 1935 laws and Kristallnacht. The death camps were secret, and only established after the war started.
