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Originally Posted by BlackIce_GTS
I agree with most of that, but the SS was actually part of the Nazi party, even before they were in power.
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So? As I pointed out before
Oskar Schindler and
John Rabe were Party members too as were a lot of people before the war.
And the Nazis were
not thought to be as evil as they were BEFORE the war too. Remember that Americans gladly did the Nazi salute to honor visiting German dignitaries in the 1930s.
Remember the funerals for the victims of the Hindenburg. Newsreel footage show thousands of American well wishers doing the "Nazi style" salute. Being associated with the party in the 30s wasn't that big of a deal to most people. Only people who knew that pogroms and other evil things were being done under the auspices of the party's philosophy were aware of such thing and they were rare.
People view the NSDAP through the prism of 20/20 hindsight AFTER WW2, rather than view the NSDAP as people did BEFORE the war.