Why I Hate Nazis *warning graphic images*

HK said:
I can understand though how a lot of people either didn't know the full extent of what was going on at the time - considering they didn't have the vast network of information access we do these days - and a lot of people didn't want to know either. That doesn't make it right but I'm guessing a lot of people turned a blind eye to some things because I bet asking questions got you a lot more than just a telling off, and everyone had families and friends to protect.
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The "I was only following orders" defence holds water for some, but not all.

When you think of the highest echelons of Nazi Germany; Hitler, Himmler, Goring, Eichman, Goebbels, Donitz, etc.. These are men who held the highest positions - very intelligent and astute men who knew full well what was going on and had full collection of the facts.

But then, Hitler wasn't without a heart... It was he who asked Eichmann to come up with a more humane way of killing jews - hence the Gas Chambers... :sarcasm
 
Zorak said:
The "I was only following orders" defence holds water for some, but not all.

When you think of the highest echelons of Nazi Germany; Hitler, Himmler, Goring, Eichman, Goebbels, Donitz, etc.. These are men who held the highest positions - very intelligent and astute men who knew full well what was going on and had full collection of the facts.

But then, Hitler wasn't without a heart... It was he who asked Eichmann to come up with a more humane way of killing jews - hence the Gas Chambers... :sarcasm
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Yeah I don't understand the higher up side of it. When you know everything that's happening, how can you just go along with it?

Maybe it's like that frog in boiling water thing. I'm guessing Hitler didn't get into power and immediately start ordering genocide, it built up gradually. And then once you're in quite deep, where would you go even if you did have the courage to get out? I think half their own people would have turned them in for their crimes. Safer to stick with the power probably. It's yellow, but there you go.
 
Yeah he probably could. Not arguing that. The bulk of the concentration camp idea was not even conceived by him, though. Germany's main method of getting rid of Jews was to deport them. It was only when war broke out that they started to actually kill them en masse.

it is interesting, actually, many Jews in Israel worked with the Nazis to have German Jews deported to Israel so that they got more people to fight for Israel's causes since they were still the minority in the region.
 
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