The tragedy of the Holocaust isn't that one man had the courage to do such evil, but that millions of others hadn't the courage to do good.
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I would agree with that, it could never have happened without them sort of letting it slip, but I would also imagine that any rebellion was smashed at the source. I mean, you did have people like Hans and Sophie Scholl, but they were few and far between. Although I can probably picture what a bigger uprising could've accomplished.