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Originally Posted by tater
If someone actually believed that their leadership was EVIL and didn't fight it (and I do mean fight, as in take up arms), they might as well shut up about it. Put up, or shut up.
Faced with real evil, that's the choice. Protests, rock concerts and puppet shows? No. It's either worth actually fighting, or it isn't actually evil to you, you just disagree with it.
The rationale behind why they might be giddy doesn't matter. During that time they were. They were happy, and they supported it. They also damn well knew that a substantial percentage of their neighbors back home were being disappeared. My friend's mom grew up in Austria during the war. She said they knew that the people in those trains that went by where she lived were not coming back---and she was a kid. Another friend's mom was a kid in Belgium during the war (her mom made the poor choice of deciding to have her 2d kid back in the old country in the early spring of 1940). She said they knew what was going on (she was a teenager by the end of the war). She helped treat allied soldiers, actually.
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Also, Hitler himself made his intentions pretty clear several times, including before he was in power. Complete abolishment of all parties in the Reichstag and the extermination of the Jewish race in Europe.
Seems like that was not an issue for most people as long as they got a job for it. Talk about wrong priorities. Well, no one told them about what else they would get - they thought it would just hit the Jews. If those evil British and Americans hadn't started throwing fire from the sky, all could have been so nice really!