The Germans did nothing wrong, the nazis did. Yet the evil was so banal who would even notice what was happening until looked upon retrospectively?

You hear such terrifying stories. The German public thought gas chambers were a luxury. They were upset that hitler was using all the good gas on the Jews and communists and leaving none for them in case the war went poorly.

The world was mad. Such a tragic period.

Disenfranchisement and poverty make you blind to crimes against humanity. You make excuses, you look the other way, language was actually quite cryptic in German politics. Doublespeak was invented in that period. Rather than refer to the holocaust as genocide they referred to it as the "most important mission in European history" a "fateful challenge for Germany to overcome". With language they removed agency and made evil more... normal. They industrialized evil so no one person ever felt like they were really killing anyone.

Like I said, a tragic time period.

i like rays version more