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tblue37

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Thu Dec-31-09 07:40 PM
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29. The term "good Germans" refers to the ordinary German citizens, who were not

Edited on Thu Dec-31-09 07:41 PM by tblue37

members of Hitler's brownshirts or SS, who nevrtheless willingly, without pressure, carried out his policies on abusing and ultimately murdering the Jews. The point is that they were the "salt of the earth" types, not the sort of people one expects to be sadistic monsters, and yet they were capable of condoning and even committing terrible atrocities.

The term comes from the title of a book on the subject: Hitler's Good Germans.

Calling Americans "good Germans" is NOT a compliment to either Americans or the "good Germans"!

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