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Most Germans showed no interest in or sympathy for the immeasurable suffering they had inflicted on the territories they had conquered and occupied
One comes to realise that busyness has become their chief defense against reality

It seemed to him they had nothing to complain about except the unfortunate situation in which they found themselves. They don’t see why they of all people have to suffer so much

Most Germans had not in fact rediscovered their consciences. On the contrary few of them wanted to hear about the horrors of nazism

Everyone helped the persecuted “at great risk to my own life”, the majority of these posthumous good samaritans add with proud modesty. Attestations of good character are the order of the hour.