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Although I continue to disagree with you Gross for reasons you refuse to comprehend, I will go along with your topic change. Assuming that in war, and under the influence of a tremendous amount of propaganda, German soldiers were often little more than young graduates of a society that Allied Sanctions ripped to shreds with the various treaties following the end of WWI. In my opinion, without this existing tension the Hitler's rise to power may have been significantly slowed or stunted. Thus, it is impossible to place all of the blame for the war and its atrocities on the Germans although no doubt some degree of blame does fall on those who undertook Hitler's mania. Bearing in mind they too faced horrible fates by being labeled "political undesirables." Somewhere along the line though, one or more factors disabled the conscience of Germans and allowed Hitler's atrocities to go on. In light of that, my question to you all is...
What played a greater role in disabling the moral conscious of the German people and army; the remorseless brutality of Hitler and his propaganda machine, or pre-existing factors that primed the German people to accept whatever form of Government/policy that could bring some kind of prosperity the fastest?
What played a greater role in disabling the moral conscious of the German people and army; the remorseless brutality of Hitler and his propaganda machine, or pre-existing factors that primed the German people to accept whatever form of Government/policy that could bring some kind of prosperity the fastest?