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Originally Posted by The Slim Reaper

Ridiculous - you don't ignore what happened and play happy families. If you think the fascists will view it as a lesson learned, history shows you're wrong. It will just embolden them for another try and with someone less obvious. The crazy right have done everything they can to destroy democracy over the last few decades, and now you want people to give their most blatant attempt, a free pass?

To be fair, there are so many of them that you at some point have to. You don't play happy families with the committed, ideological Nazis, no... but the sheepy-nazis who were drawn in for the ride? They make up such a huge chunk of the population that you can't do anything else.

Active Nazis were arrested (mostly)... Hitler-supporting German citizens had to continue living and working as part of German society. There was no other choice. It was half the country. Over time those widespread attitudes lessened in the bulk of the population. Obviously the extreme fringe still exists, but I do think it shows that it's possible for attitudes to improve generation-on-generation with work.