Who here genuinely believes that if they lived in Germany during that time period, that they would not have been a nazi?

[Shamalien]

I see a lot of moral grandstanding these days, but I’m giving you an all opportunity to be honest here. I know for a fact that 80-90% of my country would have been nazis even though they very much want to believe otherwise (Canada). I’ll be asking another poll after and comparing the results.

I am intelligent enough to understand that statistically speaking, it’s very likely I would at least go along with it, even if I wasn’t a big fan

I would speak out against it but only in private if I was sure no backlash would come from it

I would be willing to risk mine or my family’s lives to stand against this evil (would harbour jews)

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Since people love to be difficult, let me stipulate that you would be a white german (or anyone who is actually eligible to be a nazi)

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Wish I could have selected more MHOs as there were a lot of good male responses here. Ladies, you didn’t really show up for this one

[Lliam]

Given that the majority of people today think the mainstream media echo chamber is credible and unquestioningly believe what it tells them, I think the vast majority of people would do the same thing when bombarded by Goebbel's propaganda.
There wasn't even any social media or access to alternative points of view in the 1930s.

Also Germans got fucked in WWI. Germany didn't even have anything to do with causing the war. It was attacked. Then they got majorly fucked in the Treaty of Versailles. The Great Depression hit Germany harder than most. So when Hitler came along, the German people were desperate. And he DID turn the economy around in a spectacular way.

Look how easily Americans accept authoritarian measures when they are afraid.

Germans had even more reason to resent and distrust Jews than Americans had for resenting and distrusting Japanese Americans after Pearl Harbor. Nathan Rothschild was one of the core conspirators who engineered the war against Germany in WWI. In 1933, Zionists called for the destruction of Germany and a total boycott of German goods at the height of the Great Depression. Bankers were blamed for their roll in the Great Depression and the majority of banks at the time were Jewish owned. So it was easy for Germans to suspect Jews of being enemies.

Hitler saved the economy, brought back German pride, and talked about defending the homeland from enemies. Americans eat that kind of shit up.

So, given how patriotic and easily manipulated Americans are today, I'm sure most would have been enthusiastic about Nazism, at least up to the later part of the decade.

I'm a free thinker and question everything. I try to use logic to form opinions on individual issues. I have no idea what it was like in Germany then, so I don't know if I would have opposed Nazism under the circumstances. But I certainly would have opposed certain government policies. And given how dangerous it would have been to do so, I might have grown to oppose Nazism at some point and secretly worked to end the authoritarian dictatorship. I do the same thing in this country today and get accused of being unpatriotic.

[Lliam]

Thanks for the MHO, Shamalien.

[Shamalien]

Thanks for the well thought out response my friend!

[Avicenna]

„well thought-iut response“? More like anti-Semitic conspiracy theories. And an apologist for Wilhelmine Gernsny as well.

[maverick2022]

lol is that like how Jews control 90% of the media yet it's an "anti-Semitic conspiracy theory" to point it out? Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain!

[Shamalien]

@Avicenna I’m jewish, I’ll be the judge of what’s anti semitic

[BayTiger]

I would have risked my life to harbour Jews. I took a stand against the COVID measures and lost many friends because of it. Whether you agree or disagree with that, it’s proof that I’m not afraid to face consequences for what I believe in.

[Lionman95]

If I´m honest I probably would try to get along with them the best I could. Because they controlled everything very quickly yes there were some people that tried to resist them and tried to make a stand against them but they were in the minority and had no strong allies.
Like the churches mostly compromised with the Nazis, all the institution were influenced and controlled by them. There was no alternative newspaper or radio station.
The Nazis also used slogans that were made to build up German society and finances again which also could be summed up in MGGA (make Germany great again).
The biggest issue though was that the other political parties were more interested in ruining each other and actually help the nation come back after the financial crisis in 1929.
The strong alternative where the communists.
Like I know I would try to do not everything they wanted to but I wouldn´t actively working against them because it would mean being a traitor and no one wants to be a loner.
The reason so many Germans participated in it is because they took profit from it.

[Aerissa_Jade]

With what happened after WWI and the allies punishing Germany, pretty sure most people would of been one, if it looked like it would make quality of life better.

Especially since from my understanding most common people had no idea what was going on with the Jews once they were taken away, it was not common knowledge.

[Shamalien]

They could have found out pretty easily if they gave a damn. The propaganda said jews were evil and diseased and had to be separated from the rest of society and people believed it and didn’t look further.

At least you’re honest about your logic, you justify the actions of the nazis without shame. Good, maybe you’ll show some other people here how they think and hopefully they’ll be more appalled by it than you

[Aerissa_Jade]

And since I'm a minority they would not of wanted me there I bet. You know how that would of gone a minority girl in Nazi Germany. I was thinking more along the lines of the average German citizen at the time, in that time period.

Too many put modern lenses on when judging the past... when they should be judging it as if they were there and the future is unknown.

[Shamalien]

Yes I would hope you would interpret the question as if you were there in that time period and eligible for nazi status, so white and not jewish

[Lliam]

I suspect that the average German knew about concentration camps, just as Americans knew about concentration camps for Japanese in WWII. But those German camps were (mostly) work camps. The prisoners worked in factories. Because all the men were in the military and the women were supposed to be raising children, Germany needed workers for its manufacturing.
And it's important to realize that it wasn't all about Jews. They made up maybe 35% of prisoners. The others were Slavs, Gypsies, Catholics, homosexuals, dissidents, etc.

At the time, blacks in America were loathed by most white "Americans". Look at the "red scare" shit and how people's lives were ruined in the 1950s. How many citizens opposed that? Look at our prison system. Look at the "anti-terrorist" laws that began after 911. Look at the way Native Americans have been treated, the large camps for illegal (Latino) immigrants, the (ICE) programs that round up productive Latinos who have grown up here since the were infants. Look at the draconian covid measures.
People close their eyes to all that shit unless they, themselves, are targets. People rationalize injustice.

I doubt if many people would have strongly opposed the Nazi policies if they had been German in the 1930s.

[joeldalton]

Anyone who thinks that the unvaccinated should lose their jobs can not say that they wouldn’t be a nazi.

I would probably just avoid it altogether.

[Messianic_Monk]

The German people's emotions were being stoked... much like now with the regressive left. This is what happens when emotion rules your mind... you can be led to believe that genocide is okay.

I don't that I would have been a Nazi just because I practice a branch of the Jewish religion... coupled with the fact I'm probably ethnically Jewish enough to have been a target.

[DryGermanGuy]

Probably not a surprise, but most people back then were simple hangers-on, not active Nazis. One reason was that in the large working class, after you ground ten hours in a factory/farm/butchery/etc you hardly have much energy left for party events and torch marching. One had to have the financial means or family background to be a career Nazi.

[Levin]

I suppose there's two questions here.

1. Would I see through the bullshit.

2. Would I have the courage to stand against it.

Very likely I would for the first point. For the second, I'm not too sure about.

[Jay3344]

I spoke to a German I worked with who said that many people would say German slang when greeted with the Hiel which translated to “Heel” hitler which was like a subtle fuck you. I think that if I wouldn’t have left I would have been totally against the regime. But I would have probably traveled to Switzerland or America.

[OddBeMe]

Unsure. Lots of new heroes who saved hundreds, thousands of Jews are becoming popular stories. Ironically, one was a Japanese diplomat able to give hundreds asylum.

I also like the story of the White Rose society which wrote and disseminated anti Nazi texts.

[TrueConfection]

D. I would have been in a concentration camp due to my Jewish heritage.

[Shamalien]

I will update the question but I’m pretty sure you know this isn’t the answer I’m looking for. I am also jewish. Assume you were german born and not jewish and give me a real answer

[TrueConfection]

Ok, my grandfather was German and my grandmother Jewish. My other German relatives were captured. If I was around back then, I would have followed what my family was doing. That IS a real answer.

[Shamalien]

I don’t want to hear specifics about your family. Pose yourself as a totally white german with no jewish ancestry who is just as eligable to be a nazi as anyone else. Your family would go whichever direction you go. Answer properly

[TrueConfection]

So, you only want one specific answer? Why not just state that there is only one correct answer to your question? Why ask at all?

[Shamalien]

There are 3 answers to my question as listed in the poll. Read the update if you want to be difficult. Stop squirming around. You are a german living in nazi germany and you are fully eligible to be a nazi, pick your poll option

[Shamalien]

I understand it’s a difficult thought experiment but try to picture this... you aren’t jewish, you are hearing jews are diseased and dangerous and that is all you are hearing from any media or government. Obviously jews disagree, but you are told not to believe them. As a jew you can simply decline to answer if it’s too difficult

[TrueConfection]

You are aware that not all Germans were nazis? It seems you're just looking to prove yourself right about whatever delusions you have.

[Shamalien]

During the height of nazism in germany? You were either a nazi or faced complete social exclusion

[TrueConfection]

You removed @joker_ 's reply from my opinion? Coward.

[Avicenna]

False statement about being Nazi during the Nazi era. No wonder he doesn’t want dissent.

[globetrotter22]

No one knows for sure. But honestly most of these SJW activists you see nowadays really behave that way for societal approval and posturing. I bet you a million bucks they would be KKK members or Nazis in a different time era.

[Avicenna]

I would dispute the 80-905 estimate, but I do agree that many people do the easy thing and go along with a totalitarian state.

[Shamalien]

What would your estimate be and do you live in America? Americans would be a different ratio because they have a real spirit of rebellion. If we pose a hypothetical where those citizens were like modern day Americans, I’d say only 60-70 or so percent would tow the line

[Avicenna]

I agree that it would be lower in the US (and that's where I live), probably more like 30-40%. I should also mention that I have lived half of my life in Germany and some of my relatives were persecuted or killed by the Nazis.

[Shamalien]

I promise you it would not be that low, and when I release my next poll you’ll see why

[Juxtapose]

I haven't bowed down to the government yet when others have so I would stand against this evil.

[jamesgoldman]

Is suicide an option because I'd pick that, guns were everywhere so it would be pretty easy

[Shamalien]

More honourable than towing the line, I didn’t know we had such hardcore people here, perhaps I should have put the option to leave, whether the country or this world. Why not try standing against it though if you are to die, why not die fighting?

[jamesgoldman]

Concentration camps and the torture no thanks
I suppose fight until you're definitely losing then open a shotgun sunroof

[ChefPapiChulo]

what you're talking about is the milgram experiment. but your question is so misleading and nonsensical that it's not worth answering. you are leading with your wording, and you're just plain weird.

[Pohjolan]

Well we would have some backdoor information that the allies are going to win.

[Shamalien]

In a world where you wouldn’t, obviously, as in that time period one could not have known. If you want to be difficult and dodge the question you are free to fuck off. Stop messing my poll up with your bullshit.

[Pohjolan]

If you change both the timeline and place in which someone grew up then its no longer the same person.
Or are you asking if our clones whom only share our genetic makeup would have been nazis?

[Shamalien]

It’s obvs a hypothetical situation as time travel is impossible

[SuccessfulHornDog]

most people, especially liberals would have gone along with the nazis in order to hide themselves

[jshm2]

As a Jew, pretty sure would not have been a Nazi.

[Shamalien]

Read the update

[NathanDavis]

I would have not missed... on taking him down

[Joker_]

I'd have been the most wicked nazi ever yo 🤙

[jimmy2]

I doubt that