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Originally posted by DJRCyberAVS
'As for most of us would tell them to fuck off'... I doubt it. It's nice to look back and 'think' we've more sense and have superior intelligence, but if you lived in those times you would more than likely have the same opinion as those around you... one of surviving by keeping quiet.
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Exactly. Fear and survival become the name of the game. The people who act with courage and act upon it in such regimes
are so few and far between that they are later celebrated as heroes (Schindler). If offered a choice between survival and changing one's world-view most people find their world-views are more malleable than they once thought.
There was nothing wrong with the German people. They were an exceptionally talented and advanced society. Their reaction to the events around them were the normal ones. I don't think we'd be much different in similar circumstances.