it's weird, the Nazi's have become the symbol of evil from WW2, yet Russia and Japan committed mass genocide on a scale even greater than the Holocaust. Japanese mass killings of Chinese civilians was in the 10 million+ range, yet that doesn't get nearly the historical coverage that the Holocaust does.
Hitler, his senior staff, and the SS were the only true evils in the German military, the rest were just normal people. the Germans followed the Geneva conventions, while Stalin had millions of German POW's executed. even now you have the United States admitting to state sponsored torture of prisoners, and atrocities being performed by the Taliban and al Qaeda that are even more vicious than the Nazi killings, just on a smaller scale
people like to imagine Nazi Germany as a truly evil empire, they don't like to see the truth that the people in that empire weren't that different from people today, and that they would likely also follow along if put in their shoes
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