Most people are just happy to roll with the flow. Especially in German culture, switching off empathy is still quite commonplace. So a lot of people who were deeply involved in Nazi atrocities werent necessarily ideologically convinced, they just saw an opportunity to make a career in the new order and were willing to commit any crime for it. A lot of these people were preserved as useful and made careers again in Western Germany, as the US wanted to quickly reestablish Western Germany as a strong country to have a fighter against Sowjet communism.
a lot of people who were deeply involved in Nazi atrocities werent necessarily ideologically convinced, they just saw an opportunity to make a career in the new order and were willing to commit any crime for it
Most people are just happy to roll with the flow. Especially in German culture, switching off empathy is still quite commonplace. So a lot of people who were deeply involved in Nazi atrocities werent necessarily ideologically convinced, they just saw an opportunity to make a career in the new order and were willing to commit any crime for it. A lot of these people were preserved as useful and made careers again in Western Germany, as the US wanted to quickly reestablish Western Germany as a strong country to have a fighter against Sowjet communism.
None of that is unique to Germany, nor the 1930’s-40’s, but rather a core feature of capitalism, which is why it always decays in to fascism.
somehow that sounds worse than just being a nazi