(January 2, 2015 at 7:52 pm)Ramy Wrote: Yeah that was what I meant: scapegoating carried to the extreme. Every society have its criminals, it's easy to take the worst from a group and depict the whole group as bad.
In case you missed it, I wasn't making a point excusing the Nazis of old. I was merely saying that the Holocaust was the result of extremist bigotry.
Also, for the life of me, I couldn't say that anyone made a point of condemning present day Germany in this thread. This would be pretty stupid anyway, since some of us actually are from Austria and Germany.