Sure. Nazis were more aligned than unaligned with the rest of the western culture. The worst part when discussing pre-world war 2 germany is highlighting how

Sure. Nazis were more aligned than unaligned with the rest of the western culture. The worst part when discussing pre-world war 2 germany is highlighting how racist and xenophobic they were - while politely glossing the issue that everyone was xenophobic and racist back then. It was totally ok in polite circles to consider eugenics as fine possibility to make progress forward in any western country back then, I think. Nazi's didn't invent half of the horrors we know them for. They just took a few of them to their extremes. I think people understood from their example what parts of popularly held ideas were really not tenable since they were so strongly associated with Nazi attrocities.