Holocaust responsibility   I would like to expand the following phrase in the Concentration camps slave labour and genocide section The German Nazis along with segments of the German civilian population were responsible for the Holocaust  The reason for this change is as historian Michael Berenbaum stated that Germany became a  a genocidal state Every arm of the countrys sophisticated bureaucracy was involved in the killing process Parish churches and the Interior Ministry supplied birth records showing who was Jewish the Post Office delivered the deportation and denaturalization orders the Finance Ministry confiscated Jewish property German firms fired Jewish workers and disenfranchised Jewish stockholders Also in the book The Death Marches The Final Phase of Nazi Genocide the author writes of numerous incidents where German civilians hunted down concentration camp inmates or murdered groups of them as they passed through their villages in forced marches In conclusion the current statement is incomplete only placing blame on the political establishment ignoring the fact that significant elements of the German society supported such fanatical ideas