Average Fritz was a victim, despite the fact that he might have been a perpetrator as well.
He fought through The War To End All Wars to come back to an economy where if he worked in a coffee shop he could not afford to drink the coffee he made, while French and British tourists were laughing at how cheap the prices were. And then the only party telling him that it wasn’t his fault happened to be called the NSDAP. He didn’t have much education, but what he had was indoctrination since his childhood that he was a loyal subject of the Kaiser, and thus joining the Communists would have been unthinkable.
Of course, that led him to be conscripted again, it led him to do unthinkable things… again, just as he did in the previous apocalyptic war. So of course he was the bad guy, and if people like him didn’t do as people like him do, it would have been avoidable. But he has been victimized himself.
No, the critical mass of dispossessed uneducated people who see no other way of communicating that they can’t see a future is why it’s happening again.
Average Fritz was a victim, despite the fact that he might have been a perpetrator as well.
He fought through The War To End All Wars to come back to an economy where if he worked in a coffee shop he could not afford to drink the coffee he made, while French and British tourists were laughing at how cheap the prices were. And then the only party telling him that it wasn’t his fault happened to be called the NSDAP. He didn’t have much education, but what he had was indoctrination since his childhood that he was a loyal subject of the Kaiser, and thus joining the Communists would have been unthinkable.
Of course, that led him to be conscripted again, it led him to do unthinkable things… again, just as he did in the previous apocalyptic war. So of course he was the bad guy, and if people like him didn’t do as people like him do, it would have been avoidable. But he has been victimized himself.
This complacency to take individual responsibility is why it’s happening again.
No, the critical mass of dispossessed uneducated people who see no other way of communicating that they can’t see a future is why it’s happening again.