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>You conflate three totally separate concepts.
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>1) Nazis and much of the Nazi agenda = bad [no reasonable person will
>disagree with this]
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>2) Nazis came from the German populace (mostly)
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>3) A substantial portion of the Wehrmacht and German fighting forces
>in general were conscripted from the German populace.
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>From this you ascribe culpability of the German populace. You appear
>to have little clue about the conditions in Germany. While Hitler did
>not kill/imprison his fellow countrymen on the wholesale scale that
>Stalin did, all lived in fear in Germany. For example, people could
>be interrogated or worse for not returning the ubiquitous "Heil
>Hitler" that even civilians were suggested to use often in greeting.
>Everyone knew of directly or indirectly of people just disappearing in
>the middle of the night. You can't blame the populace who are
>controlled in this way. The same methods work anywhere. They would
>work in the US too. People controlled by such methods are not
>culpable in exactly the same way that the Russian populace after WWII
>has no guilt whatsoever for the evil government which ruled them for
>decades even as they were aware that their government was
>'disappearing' millions of their fellow citizens.
Thanks for sharing.
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