There is a program called "Stolpersteine"- they have put little bronze-bricks into the streets before houses where Jews and others who where "Transported" lived

There is a program called "Stolpersteine"- they have put little bronze-bricks into the streets before houses where Jews and others who where "Transported" lived. There are little bronze bricks in nearly every street of the town i live nearby. Yet many of the old people there claim to never have known. And many claim they have helped the prisoners in some way. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stolperstein https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stolperstein The Wehrmacht shot and torched whole villages for partisan activity. And soldiers talk- they have convoys through the hinterland- they knew exactly what the SS was doing in the conquered territories. They guarded millions of war-prisoners while not giving them food and shelter until they succumbed. Im not singling out germany. Every country, and all people on the planet are capable of this. WorldWar2 or the holocaust where not something particular unique. They where just humanity's worst behavior combined with organization skill and industrial capacity's. Stalins Holdomor, the Archipel Gulag or Maos Killing spree are similar in dimension but lacked the cultural scenes echo chamber for sentimental political reasons. These messy large scale crimes where not ended by education, a protest generation or self civilization of the species, but by the invention of the nuclear bomb, which limited the war like activities of larger, well organized nations. Among non nuclear deterred groups or within country's, such breaks of civilization can happen anytime even today. (See Yugoslawia, Iraq/Syria, The Hutu/Tutsi Genocide) I also assume some dictators started to turn away from ethnic scape-goating, after in several countrys riled up masses turned against them and China showed that even a crony-corrupt-dictatorship can be economically functional.