This is what people forget. We talk about authority and laws and how they restrict our freedoms. How Politicians actively go out of their ways to restrict our freedoms whilst gaining more of theirs. It's hard to watch, but one must try to understand their mentality to respect the forces that are moving them. To oppose by force is wrong in my opinion because then morals and ethics become skewed and the lines between good and bad become blurred. Both parties start to look similar shades rather than opposites.
It's the system that's at fault in my opinion. It's the system that allows people to get away with x, y and z, if there was no way to do such a thing then people wouldn't do it. Like you said, it was only 70 years ago that Jews were executed in the streets like dogs in Nazi Germany and not many stood up for it. If you can get away with it, leaders do it.
I also love how you said "Christian" Nazis because it's widely disputed that Hitler was an Atheist, and you can't find Hitlers Christianty anywhere on Google, but, my wife has lived in Germany for eight years, talked to survivors of the war and it was very Christianity led.
Martin Luther, the one who formed Protestantism and Luthernism was German, and influenced German culture with his views.
He spoke of 'Locking Jews in their synagogues and burning them alive.'
Go check out Martin Luther's Wikipedia article. It's rather unsavory.
I will!