Genocidal rhetoric for years, people speaking about extermination come into power, laws passed that legalize theft from those who were spoken about being genocided, police openly begin beating and killing them in public, random citizens do the same with no repercussions and also rob them... fast forward years "wow, but who knew they were all being murdered?"
Hitler & co: "We'll kill everyone who isn't us!"
Germans: "Yay! Kill them all! Here's my vote!"
Hitler & co: does what they say they'll do
USSR: "Hey look at all the terrible shit the Germans are doing."
Germans: "How could we have known! We've been bamboozled! Woe is us!"
Genocidal rhetoric for years, people speaking about extermination come into power, laws passed that legalize theft from those who were spoken about being genocided, police openly begin beating and killing them in public, random citizens do the same with no repercussions and also rob them... fast forward years "wow, but who knew they were all being murdered?"