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