People acted worse than animals, and it was people I knew.
Genocide is always a conscious choice.
It is never just an accident of history. The Nazis could use the machinery of government, the police, the courts, the schools, the newspapers and radio, to implement their racist beliefs. In April 1933 Hitler began to make discrimination against Jews government policy. All non-Aryans were expelled from the civil service. A non-Aryan was defined as anyone who had Jewish parents or two or more Jewish grandparents.