es of the German people. It was not. By contrast, in Bulgaria, in 1942, the population of Sofia poured into the streets to prevent the deportation of Bulgarian Jews. The populations of Berlin and other German cities could have acted in a similar manner. In fact, the German population could have resisted, en masse, the Nazi excesses at are far earlier point in time, when resistance would have been much easier. They did not. The question, thus, remains as to why the German society permitted to Nazi government to consolidate its power, while exhibiting uncivilized behaviors.
Legally constituted governments, both before and after the government of the Third Reich, have been implicated in the commission of atrocities. As an example, the "Americans retaliated with atrocities of their own, burning down a whole village and killing every inhabitant if an American soldier was found with his throat cut, applying the 'water cure' and other tortures to obtain information." That description was not of American actions in Vietnam in the late-1960s. Rather, it
...