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A question framing Richard J. Evans' book Hitler’s People (2024):
“Why did so many leading Germans in responsible positions, in the key institutions of society, go along with dictatorship, war and genocide? And what did those of them who survived the war think about their conduct under the Third Reich? Did they gain a moral perspective on it, did they repent, did they come to an understanding of what they had done?”
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@wdlindsy Shot from the hip, here, but my guess is that the majority of them did not.
@wdlindsy@toad.social@GeePawHill I'm assuming you're answering that last question. I suspect you're right with that answer. I have a number of friends in Germany who were children during the war or born immediately after it ended — and this is their assessment of the generations before them: even after the war, they were not willing to learn, many of them.