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Originally Posted by Schroeder
You are aware that most members of the White Rose were executed? How many people are willing to risk there very life for something they can hardly change?
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This does not address the point. The fact is White Rose would not have even been necessary had the Nazis been bared from power and acceptance in the first place. But the fact that White Rose existed indicates their were people in Germany who knew fully what the Nazis were doing and even called for people to join them against the party. It's just too bad they came too late.
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Several thousand Germans were executed by the Nazis.
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8 million Jews and other non-aryans were executed by the Nazis. Many uncountable millions of Slavs were executed by the Nazis. Do you see why I find opinions like yours ridiculous?
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Sometimes for as small acts as telling a joke that made fun of Hitler or voicing out there opinion (like the White Rose people did). That usually keeps people in line. If you don't know who you can trust you better stay silent because a wrong word to a wrong person could be your end.
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Unfortunately for the Jews, they didn't even have the choice to just stay silent. But hey, Germans were threatened...by the party they chose to support. The party that threatened mass violence to all of its neighbors.
"We didn't know" is not a sufficient excuse. That's the end of it.
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By all means Stalin's thugs are responsible for at least as many dead and they had installed a terror regime which could challenge the German one in terms of cruelty.
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By all means Stalin and his regime were equally cruel and sadistic. The difference is
no one covered for him after death. The Post-Stalin Soviet Union actually went out the way to discredit Stalin and his public image for good reason. The man was a tyrant, and the Soviet and modern people of Russia never liked him. If the Nazis hadn't been so brutal to the western Slavs, they would have actually risen against him and joined the axis.