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Originally Posted by Mephistopheles  If you grew up in Nazi Germany murder isn't bad at all. If Nazism had won the war, our world wouldn't find a problem with genocide and random murder. |
That's utter nonsense that would be revealed by even the most cursory understanding of the period.
The Nazis took tremendous pains to keep their atrocities a secret even from their own people. They left very few written documents, they ensured that Hitler's name never appeared on a document related to the treatment of Jews, they burned and destroyed all of the
Operation Reinhard camps (Sobibor, Belzec, Chelmno, Treblinka, and Majdanek), they destroyed the crematoria at Auschwitz, they killed the
sonderkommando at the death camps regularly to prevent them from disseminating what they'd witnessed, and they relegated the atrocities against civilians largely to the SS (with some exceptions, especially in the occupied Soviet Union). The German populace was NEVER told of the campaign to exterminate Jews (and others), and while many suspected it it was never an openly declared policy. And at Nuremburg (and other war crimes trials) the Nazi defendants always did their best to either deny that their atrocities had happened, deny knowledge of them, or use the Eichmann defense that they were just little puppets following orders.
Sounds like a whole lot of secrecy -- and perhaps shame.