Reading other threads elsewhere, it makes me wonder if people listened to history lessons at school.
I never did WW2 history. I learnt from books. I learnt by going to the places where hate won. Hate comes so easily to some and is fuelled so easily. It's experienced if you're different. Don't fit in. If you aren't 'us'. If you are 'them'.
Creating hate is easy. It's happening now. It's happening in the press. It happens on MN. Create a target group. Don't say anything positive but always highlight the negative. Even if their characteristic has nothing to do with the event, that doesn't matter. Highlight it.
It's othering. When you create other, you can turn a blind eye. You can dehumanise people.
It was not just Jews in the Holocaust. It was intellectuals. Homosexuals. Gypsies. The disabled. People who were not 'us'. Who were 'them'.
I can see now how easy these things happen. Rwanda, Srebenica etc. Yet it's funny. Life is going on. Work, watching TV, shopping, going out.
I bet that life just went on in other countries as things developed around them.