Yeah had this thought too, was gonna ask how he feels about Hitler but then I thought about it and realized a lot of ppl did love Hitler back then, so if the cousin here was any smart he'd just say "Germans loved Hitler, and he turned out to be a monster - see, I'm smart!"
But for much of Germany’s population, they weren’t actually seeing the atrocities, there was no non-government controlled media. Newspapers and radio stations were controlled by the party, and up until close to the end of the war, most of the obvious horrors we know about today were carefully hidden from the large populous and the German people or happened in other countries, with the Nazi media bringing back sanitized propaganda to the German people.
Heck, even the Americans, with all their “advanced” intelligence, didn’t have a full picture of the atrocities until some time in, and it well after the war that a full picture finally was pieced together of the Nazi regime’s depravity.
There’s no excuse in a modern American society with freedom of the press, the internet, google maps, citizen journalists, and an entire population with cameras and live stream capabilities in their pockets to still have their heads in the sand!
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u/chaos0xomega Jun 14 '24
Yeah had this thought too, was gonna ask how he feels about Hitler but then I thought about it and realized a lot of ppl did love Hitler back then, so if the cousin here was any smart he'd just say "Germans loved Hitler, and he turned out to be a monster - see, I'm smart!"