| It is obvious and often mentioned that if the average | | | | consider the economics of the time of the collapse of |
| German could have found away to set aside their | | | | the Wiemar Republic. Germany was in shambles and |
| dejection from the collapse of the Wiemar Republic | | | | the average German was suffering economically and |
| and rejected the policies of Adolf Hitler, the lives lost in | | | | emotionally disheartened by the failure of their efforts |
| World War II and in the prison camps may have been | | | | at liberal democracy. Adolf Hitler filled their stomachs. I |
| spared. We see footage of the camps right next to | | | | am not justifying or condoning the failure of the |
| sleepy little towns and the skeptical narrator without fail | | | | average German to reject the Nazi party and |
| questions the veracity of the people that claim that | | | | challenge their actions. I am asking you to consider that |
| they knew nothing about what was going on in the | | | | what we expect them to have done is something that |
| camps and they had no idea what that smell was.It is | | | | humanity has not perfected. We expect them to have |
| easy in hindsight and as someone who was not there | | | | set aside their own comfort and perhaps their own |
| to admonish them for their impotence. I ask you to | | | | survival for the greater good. |