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Surya Gayatri

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9. While consolidating power in the 1930s, he merely demonized and scape-goated them.

Reply to yeoman6987 (Reply #5)

Fri Mar 4, 2016, 12:06 PM

Mar 2016

He didn't start rounding them up and killing them until 1939 for the most part.

And, millions of Germans chose to ignore, if not participate in, the process. Their love of a strong, demogogic father-figure "trumped" their humanity.

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