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Originally Posted by Cowboy89
Then the question begins as to what an able bodied pure-bred German would do about it in 1934. What could they do about it? By the time Hitler had marginal control, he didn't need the permission of the average German. Clearly the average German acted out of self-interest. It wasn't them being shipped off, and if they interfeared they probably would have been taken off to work camps with the Jews too.
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Well, you could do what the Italians eventually did to Mussolini. Kill him.
Not to say that some people didn't try, but it wasn't enough.
These sorts of moral situations do transcend simple self-interest. Some people chose to be motivated by fear, a lot of people didn't