Amber on Nostr: People genuinely forget how influential the party was. Hitler Youth was specifically ...

People genuinely forget how influential the party was. Hitler Youth was specifically designed to indoctrinate children who did not know any better into the Nazi ideology. Not every member of the party was a full proponent either. There's a difference between the people charged in the Nuremberg trials and kids who were forced into the Nazi youth. The Nazis did not have some sort of "dead eyes" or weird anti social behavior. They acted as anyone else, your friendly neighbor and so forth. To people who were torn by WW1 Hitler had some very *convincing* arguments (people want to believe that there's a way out, people want to believe there's an easy fix that's why the party was so effective). There's so much more that went into it that people just do not have any sort of understanding, or respect for. I do not respect the nazis. I do understand they had very effective techniques to mislead people into their ideology, stuff that if you were there at the time could very easily buy into as long as you were not part of the groups they were advocating out.