Precisely this. The most interesting fact about the first German genocide, the one in what's now Namibia, is that the German governor in that region was Heinrich Goering, father of the WWI Ace, architect of the Four-Year Plan, and flamboyant drug-addicted kleptocrat Hermann Goering. One wonders just what Heinrich learned from his father in all that given how willingly he aided the modernized, bureaucratic European version. *shakes head* And the most nasty element of the Holocaust is how few were the people in Europe that objected to. And only two countries actively stopped it in their territory, those being Bulgaria and Denmark.
To me perhaps both the most awesome thing and the most frightening thing at the same time in this context is the Rosenstrasse Protest: the SS goes to round up Jewish husbands of Christian women, those women protest in the kind of civil disobedience used by Gandhi and MLK, and the regime backed down and returned their husbands.
The most frightening thing about that is it's the only time this ever happened. But it was the most successful of all protests in Germany. Makes you wonder.
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Date: 10/3/12 17:44 (UTC)To me perhaps both the most awesome thing and the most frightening thing at the same time in this context is the Rosenstrasse Protest: the SS goes to round up Jewish husbands of Christian women, those women protest in the kind of civil disobedience used by Gandhi and MLK, and the regime backed down and returned their husbands .
The most frightening thing about that is it's the only time this ever happened. But it was the most successful of all protests in Germany. Makes you wonder.