Answer/Explanation:
Why people Followed Hitler
We must learn to accept the difficult truth that Hitler's regime was
the most popular government in German history; yet we know as
well that few Germans after the war would confess having given any
loyalty to the Nazi movement. This was not a lie in the soul of the
German nation; it was a part of a collective delusion that all the
fascist movements brought upon their followings. It was as if the
movements themselves, as things independent of the men that embodied them, were responsible for the things that happened.!
Gilbert Allardyce, Historian, 1971
Well-publicized among Germans, already before Hitler came to
power and during a period when he still depended on their consent
rather than coercion, were the many actual deeds of butchery ....
Some day the same Germans, now cheering Hitler's strut into Paris,
will say to their American friends and to their brave German antiNazi friends: "We did not know what went on, we did not know";
and when that day of know-nothing comes, there will be laughter in
hell.