Yup
People think "I'd hide Anne Frank! I wouldn't turn her in to the Nazis."
That's bullshit. Most people didn't hide Jews, and plenty of them actively and eagerly reported people to the authorities
1 in 3 people in East Germany were government informers. The tyranny wasn't "brutal government and innocent population"
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I don't know where you got this 1 in 3 figure - it's very, very wrong. The GDR had some 17 million citizens, and at peak time there were some 100,000 STASI members and a maximum of 200,000 inofficial informants at any given time. Over the course of around 40 years the STASI had an estimated TOTAL number of 640,000 informants but that included each and every person who ever gave ANY information on anything. That's still an irritatingly high number but not more than 1 in 85 at once at any given time. And again: that number is listing up pretty much ANYone who was ever in contact with the STASI. They would interview you and let you sign an agreement and bam - you were an inofficial informant. A very large number of those were "enlisted" in order to put pressure on them, make them accomplices and generally give people the impression they were under control 24/7.
Whoops, should have been under surveillance. One source mentions "More than one in three East Germans (5.6 million) was under suspicion or surveillance, with an open Stasi file"
Lol no
About 6.4 million people voted for the National Socialist party in 1930 (and about 4.5 million for the Communist party). Germany truly was a dark place back then
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Dude, the world was a dark place in the 1930s. Timelines and circumstances matter.
I'd have to argue they didn't know how fucked up it would actually become, cuz WW2 was truly unfathomable prior; hell we nearly did the same thing in the US. People have a tendency to forget mistakes.
i should add, the moment it was realized the direction this was all going, and still going along is unforgivable. The ignorance before it all happen can be forgiven, but not once you know what is happening and are chill about it, it's better to die fighting it than living with the guilt of it.
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I repeat: in general, most people on their own are decent and have basic integrity. The problems are caused by multitude of people and bad circumstances. One third of the voters in 1933 Germany voted for the Nazis and many of those did so because they wanted a change, no matter what. Now, what does this remind you of? The right assortment of bad people pressing the right buttons turned them into what happened next, like people waiting for their jewish neighbors getting deported so they could steal their shit, and denouncing people for the wrong joke getting them into concentration camps etc. Y'all better believe this could happen ANYWHERE and believing "it can't happen here" is exactly where it will start.
People think "I'd hide Anne Frank! I wouldn't turn her in to the Nazis."
That's bullshit. Most people didn't hide Jews, and plenty of them actively and eagerly reported people to the authorities
1 in 3 people in East Germany were government informers. The tyranny wasn't "brutal government and innocent population"
About 6.4 million people voted for the National Socialist party in 1930 (and about 4.5 million for the Communist party). Germany truly was a dark place back then