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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Coroc" data-source="post: 8029992" data-attributes="member: 6895991">Yes but many people only suppressed their worst guesses on what would happen with the deported people, and several really did not know. And if they did they could not do much on it, to lean up would have been suicidal.You see, back then you did not have modern means of information and the few media, radio, newspapers and weekly shows in cinemas were heavily censored. So the regime had easy play in keeping the truth secret and twisted. They told the people that the deported were given a new area to live in the conquered lands. Who could have checked if this was true except those who took part directly?Also it was a like a religious cult, and people also nowadays do stupid stuff because they think their god demands it.But you might have a point, there were several psychological experiment, the one where the people were told they are allowed to apply electric shocks labeled as slight, potentially damaging and potentially lethal to other subjects, and not all would outright refuse to apply pain to others and some would even apply the (of course fake!) lethal dose.So there is a psycho in every human given the condition is right, and one of the conditions which seems to work is taking away responsibility by authority.</blockquote>