Nietzsche Understood that Germany Must be Destroyed

[Ryantology]

Expanding on my rubbish comment, clearly everyone was not aware of what an evil man had been elected. Had those who were caught been aware of what was happening, they would have fled and not been caught. As it was, too many of them were caught because they were quite unaware of what was happening.

I really don't think this is true. I also think (with good reason) there was quite a substantial effort on the part of the victors to overlook the role of the German people in what their leaders did. That's why we have the narrative today that Hitler's charisma was virtually supernatural and that he enthralled an entire people who would, otherwise, never have gone along with such depravity.

The truth is, a huge number of Germans were already quite okay with virulent anti-Semitism, and even for those who weren't, he made his views clear very early on and only pretended to be anything else when outsiders were paying attention. There were certainly a lot of Germans who really did just suffer the Nazis in silence, but no man can do what Hitler did without the willing approval and enthusiastic complicity of a substantial number of Germans.

You have to remember, the Nazi party had more than twenty years to mold the people into what they wanted. Rarely was there significant resistance to this. Because, in the end, the German people of the time wanted what Hitler wanted.

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Germany itself was never the real problem. One single man, who fooled and manipulated the masses, was the problem, however.

Um, I don't know who taught you history - but Hitler joined the Nazi movement - he didn't create it....

For all intents and purposes, he was the man most responsible for creating the Nazi Party. The original founders, and their intentions, were marginalized very early on.