And nun-raping.
I get tired of people explaining that everyone in Hitlers Germany wasn't a Nazi. As if that makes everything all alright. But I looked into the question and discovered I had it all wrong.
Apparently no-one in Hitlers Germany was truly Nazi I understand now, which surprised me no end. And apparently the whole nation wasn't rabidly anti-Semitic either. Someone on Youtube explained that none of the concentration camps had gas chambers too. Apparently that was some kind of mistake.
If that don't beat all. I wish I could have run that past the woman at my work who had been at Auschwitz, but sadly she gone now, she could have confirmed that for me.
I understood that the only underground resistance to the Nazi regime consisted of 6 teenagers armed with a typewriter, and an elderly couple who wrote some postcards, but I must have misunderstood that too.
I would recommend a book to anyone interested, about the Police battalions on the Russian front. They were older men and other physically unfit for the military. Normal men, not soldiers. They didnt receive any special indoctrination or even training, and unlike the SS, they didn't have to be Nazi Party members.
To a man they embraced the mass shooting of Jewish villagers in their thousands. They even volunteered to go on their days off and do it. There was only one chap who applied for a transfer because he didnt like the work, and they moved him without any fuss. There were no repercussions.
In 1940's you didn't need to be a Nazi to shoot naked civilians by the truckload. You just had to be German. It was an antisemitic culture, Nazism arose out of it, not the other way around.
I didnt actually read the article, so this post may be out of place or irrelevant. Slot in wherever appropriate.
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