Similar to my Germany wasn't the cause of World War I debate. People are always told that all Germans supported Hitler and the Holocaust during World War II. This isn't true because some Germans were just fighting for their country, not to help Hitler plans to kill people. This is historical hindsight at it's finest for World War II
In fact, when some Germans saw videos of the Holocaust, they were shocked and disgusted
Here are German POWs watching a video of the Allied liberation of a death camp. Does their reaction look like they approve if this?
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Pretty much all Germans are evil and guilty for the holocaust
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Now, obviously, the anti-semitic propaganda was very strong, and overall the state was totalitarian, with constant arrests of people over minor things. Everyone knew that was the case. At the same time, the majority of Germans likely thought that this was where the line was drawn: that Hitler's regime simply took down the opposition, like any dictatorship does. They were willing to put up with it in exchange for the economical renaissance the nation was experiencing.
There are very few records, if any, of common citizens taking violent action against other people based on their race or nationality. It was a prerogative of the police and the army. Regular people just went about their lives as usual, and even though there was definitely a racist vibe going in the society, it tends to be exaggerated nowadays. In fact, a lot of Germans had Jewish friends or friends of other minorities.
Hitler's support really started deteriorating when the war started, as @Oppolzer noted: people didn't want another depression and/or invasion and weren't thrilled about Hitler's plans to conquer Europe. This is one of the reasons why, once the war turned around, there was barely anyone left in Germany to defend the country. Unlike, say, Soviet Union, where common civilians took up arms and fought the German invaders at every corner, in Germany few civilians fought against the allied forces.
On the trials in Nuremberg, a lot of the high-ranked officers claimed to not have known what was going on in the Nazi death camps. At the time their claims were dismissed, both due to how unbelievable they sounded, and to the political pressure to deal with them with extreme prejudice - but looking back now, what they said may very well have been true.
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Nope. It's not a given!!!!
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Although krystalnacht was planned by the Nazi government, and it was the largest known pogrom, there were many other documented pogroms that were planned by normal German citizens going as far back as 1819. Now obviously my remarks about all Germans being evil and guilty of the holocaust is purely for shock value, and I don't actually believe that. However, the idea that antisemitism in German society is "overexaggerated" is simply untrue. Hence the reason Jews didn't gain civil rights until 1871.
https://www.encyclopedia.com/history/modern-europe/russian-soviet-and-cis-history/pogroms#C
As far as high ranking officials being unaware of the death camps, that I can believe. There was actually documented instances early in Nazi rule where German citizens resisted certain laws that put Jews lives in danger. They couldn't stop the Nazis from passing the Nuremburg laws, but when it became known that some Jews were being murdered simply for being Jewish, many citizens, most notably the Christian church, were shocked and appalled at the idea of murder. Hence the reason the "final solution" was kept secret, because it was known that the bulk of German citizens would resist if they knew murder was involved. That doesn't mean that people who were against the murder of Jews weren't antisemitic themselves. Devout Christians are against murder, but that doesn't mean some of them don't think Jews are evil. You don't have to want to see Jews murdered to be antisemitic. You just need to buy into the absurd idea that Jews are conspirators.
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"There's going to be a special place in Hell for people who spread lies through the veil of logical fallacies disguised as rational argument".
"Oh, you don't like my sarcasm? Well I don't much appreciate your stup!d".
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The nazis were not a "minority" group. In the 1933 election that was held in March, the nazis got 43.9% of the vote, and with their coalition party (the German national peoples party), they were able to gain a majority vote. The German public knew exactly who they wanted to be their ruler.
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As Burke said, "The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing". Some of the worst atrocities in human history were committed by tiny minorities under silent support, indifference or, at beast, lazy opposition from the rest of the population. In some cases, the entire totalitarian machine would be held on people's fear of one single person. A person who could be killed easily by any commoner in a fair fight, but who managed to create a mythology around them making them look like the entire nation is behind them.
It is a tragic case of collective confusion: everyone thinks that the rest of the society sides with the dictator, so they do not oppose him either - even if, individually, only a small minority does. People trick each other into fearing the dictator, and the latter uses it to his advantage.
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...hundreds of thousands of foreign peoples joined with Hitler’s legions to bring theirs people into special status in Hitler’s New Order. -http://global-politics.eu/waffen-ss-im-einsatz-hitlers-soviet-muslim-legions/
Haj Mohammed Effendi Amin el-Husseini, the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem at the time, was a special VIP guest in Germany during WWII. He helped recruit muslims into the Nazi SS.
The Grand Mufti proposed an Arab revolt all across the Middle East to fight the Jews... -https://time.com/4084301/hitler-grand-mufi-1941/
13th Waffen Mountain Division of the SS Handschar
The division was composed of Bosnian Muslims with some Catholic Croat soldiers.
Aserbaidschanische Legion
Turkistanische Legion -Turkestan legion
Kaukasisch-Mohammedan Legion
Another of many units that consisted of Muslim Tartars, the Wolgatatarische Legion, was formed in Poland on January 1942. As
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