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Why the German People Complied with the Nazis

Posted on January 10, 2008
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Why did so many Germans go along with the Nazis? What choice did they have?

Men in the factories could refuse to pledge allegiance and then they would lose their jobs and their families would starve, or they could be “good Germans” and keep their jobs, at the cost of their integrity. When weighed integrity against your family your integrity has little meaning. Sure there was a possibility that others would stand with you but who is willing to risk their life thinking that maybe someone else will risk theirs along with you.

The women also had little choice, after all they were women. They had few decisions and there is nothing that a woman considers more when she makes a decision than her children. No woman would take a risk of her child’s life for freedom for someone else, that would be foolish.

If there was any group with less choices then women it was children, they could not join the little Hitler fan club, but that was more a decision by their parents than their own. Children could speak out all they wanted, they were still just children.

With Germany set up the way it was it was inevitable for someone like Hitler, with a party like the Nazis to come along and make a disturbance, there was no way for the people to stop it. Everyone had something to lose, and no one was willing to take the first step in opposition of Hitler. If one person had stepped forward maybe their family would have been killed, but two more men would step forward in their place until all of German rose up, but that’s the problem with us, no on is ever willing to go first.

I imagine this was a very hard place for some people to be, but they were there holocaust timeline. It’s easy to criticize these men for not stepping forward but I doubt any man would sacrifice his family for anything.

Sometimes people realize thing, but often too late to change anything, or so they think. Sometimes people need to put their foot down and say stop if they get rolled over, then they get rolled over. It is a chance people need to take to do what’s right.

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