> "The holocaust was possible because step by step, the dehumanization and abstraction of the process resulted in people being able to be apathetic to it." Abs

> "The holocaust was possible because step by step, the dehumanization and abstraction of the process resulted in people being able to be apathetic to it." Abstraction of the process is not required nor is a process of dehumanization if it's already culturally ingrained. It is rarely spoken of but the Japanese occupation of Asia immediately preceding and during WWII caused nearly triple the deaths of the Holocaust (the vast majority being civilian) with as much or greater brutality in many cases and was not neatly confined to camps but widespread across all of Japan's occupied territories.