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Originally Posted by MoneyGuy
Germans who remained silent as the Nazis did their work were nowhere near as bad as the evil empire they opposed. It’s ignorant to suggest that. Imagine having a family to protect and taking a stand knowing that you’d sent to a gas chamber or shot on the spot.
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Nobody is saying that the Good Germans who stood idly by and did nothing to stop Nazism are equally bad as the SS and Gestapo who callously murdered Jews and other so-called "undesirables" by the millions. What we are saying is that by remaining silent against the tyranny of fascism because it was easy and convenient, they are complicit in the crimes of Nazi Germany.
"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing."
-Edmund Burke