Comment by nkmnz
2 months ago
Look at Germany 1933++ and Eastern Germany 1945++ to see how regular people act when they get power over their neighbours. I don’t have a position on the book, but your argument isn’t supporting what you think your position is - quite the contrary.
The narrative that Germans were somehow intrinsically evil was spun deliberately after the war. The truth is much more haunting than that. Ordinary people are capable of letting these things happen, and even of participating in them. Believing that we aren't is a huge of what enables us to so.