Quote Originally Posted by Peter View Post
It is pretty difficult to understand but it happens in stages. Your average German could claim to not have known about the gas chambers but they knew the Jews were rounded up in ghettos. Then rounded up and removed. And never seen again. And they heard the rhetoric..... many would have heard rumours of gas chambers but it is possible to think that they wouldn't have believed it.

Just one of many examples of how thin the veneer of civilisation is. And what lurks beneath it.
As you say, they'd watched Krystallnacht and then seen them disappear. They didn't need to even know of the death camps to have a vague idea they hadn't all gone raving in Ibiza.

But then, would you put your head over the parapet to ask? When you have a missus and perhaps kids? Then you're a braver {or more deluded} man than I, P. I'd have kept my head down. When I was single and in my '20s, yes, resist. But risk leaving my glw and cat alone, potentially also causing them problems, when it won't make any difference? Nah, just forget about it, put the radio on and hope it saussies and sauerkraut for tea.

We forget - though really shouldn't - quite what totalitarian regimes are like. If you can get major players, true believers, owning up to crimes they didn't commit at Stalin's show trials, you really think Herr Average will ask where all the Jews have gone knowing it will lead to a knock on the door without helping one single Jew?

And if you wanna think how thin this veneer of civilisation is, imagine that Farrage gets in tomorrow and calls for a Krystallnacht on asylum hotels. How many Brits go smashing windows and how many rush to their defence, knowing the fuzz have been told to stand aside. You really think we're any better? The Glorious Revolution settlement and 22 miles of water don't make us better people, as you well know.