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I have been reading a really good book called “Hitler’s people” by Richard J Evans. It answers a lot of questions that I think we all must have. Why did so many Germans take part in the crimes of Nazi Germany? How did they come to support Hitler and follow him almost to the very end? Over the decades since the and of WW2, the Nazis have been frequently presented as little more than psychopaths or criminals. Evans produces much recently unearthed new evidence to strip away the veneer of myth and legend from the faces of the Third Reich and present us with a more realistic view of Nazi perpetrators as human beings who were disturbingly like us. Yes, they did unspeakable evil and we must never forget but there was also a great banality to their wickedness.
So much of what drove the Nazis was a visceral hatred of Jewish people. Yes, a lot came from Hitler but it was widely embraced by the German population. Jews were seen as sub-human and simultaneously blamed for all the woes of Germany. Exterminating them seemed logical to the monsters of the Third Reich and so the gas chambers beckoned.
Fast forward to 2026. Social Media is replete with post after post blaming the Jews for every evil under the sun.
