in reply to Nanook

As a German, that was a question I could never answer. I knew my grandparents and other old men and women who were good people. How could they have allowed it? And moreover: I always thought, it could never happen again. For every question there would be people who dislike or doubt something, would be demonstrations, would be discussions -- they would never start running like Lemmings again. That's what I thought.

Now I see. How even intelligent people suddenly start to believe what is so obviously doubtful, how they don't dare to say, what they still doubt, how they get angry about people who still say what is no more allowed to say. It's real fear, implanted in their hearts, it's fear of loosing some status, it's a shrug and the sentence "what could I do". It's like Mass psychosis.