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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Daniel Jonah Goldhagen's hypothesis was that there was something different about Germany that made antisemitism flourish there in as murderous way. I don't necessarily agree with this hypothesis, as a lot of historians have criticized his methodology. However, he asks whether one can envision everyday Danes or Italians participating in the Holocaust the way Germans did. The fact that I can't envision that makes me want to do more research on this topic.[/quote]

As to your last sentence, you're forgetting the centuries of anti semitism that conditioned Germans prior to the rise of Nazism. Add in a lost war, a horrible economic depression that puts ours to shame, Hitler's scapegoating of the Jews and success in building up the economy, and the fact that the Nazi regime mostly kept the final solution top secret until the war started to go very badly against them, and it starts to make a bit more sense in terms of sheer logistics. Of course that doesn't excuse it.

But you know, our own hands aren't entirely clean either. The US (as well as GB) was very anti Semitic at that time as well. Our government turned boats of German Jewish refuges away. We also made winning the war our top priority over shutting down the camps. Pretty disgusting when you think about it. We could have done both.[/quote]

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