Why do people choose to participate in horrific events?
Throughout time, people have turned on one another in times of oppression, even when they had not prior resentment towards the victims of the injustice. In Nazi Germany of 1939, people who had nothing against Judaism suddenly joined the plot to completely eliminate the religion altogether. The Nazi empire brought Europe to its knees, destroying anything and anyone who opposed them. People who joined the Nazis, even if they didn't fully believe in what Hitler was all about, the human instinct of self preservation would kick in. They would want to join the side with the power, not the destitute.
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