Nazi Germany

I think that the Nazi regime and policies perfectly demonstrates the concepts of mob mentality and the sway childhood events have. Seeing how normal people become at least tolerant of the execution of Jews in the Baltic states and seeing how at least some normal people joined the SS, shows a few things. First of all, after being subliminally and blatantly fed propaganda about Jews for more than a decade, from authoritative figures who you admire for fixing Germany, it is easy to see why people accepted these ideas. I think that most people who accepted these ideas and targeted Jews themselves had a conscience. What little aversion to the ideas was left, was probably crushed by peer pressure and the fact that so many people are openly supporting it. For example, when the accordion player just started playing on top of a pile of Jewish corpses. That was probably the case with the Einsatzgruppen volunteer in Lithuania in the documentary.