It is relatively easy for evil to flower,if the conditions are right. I ponder this a lot when I listen to people like Alex Jones and wonder how much credence to give their arguments on NWO,tyranny,False Flags etc
This is an interesting post from Jesse's Cafe Americain
http://jessescrossroadscafe.blogspot.co.uk/2013/01/hitlerland-making-peace-with-devil.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+JessesCafeAmericain+%28Jesse%27s+Caf%C3%A9+Am%C3%A9ricain%29
"The capacity for self-delusion and a bad compromise is amazing,
especially during periods of confusion, fear, and distraction. And the
moral base in Germany at that interwar period was already notoriously
relativistic and given to occultism, odd theories, and Nietzchean
extremes. And after war, hyperinflation, and a new Depression, their
spirit and will to resist evil was simply exhausted, especially when it
was backed by systematic terror and force.
We ought not to be too critical of those people, many of the Americans
included, who did not see the worst coming. Did you see the recent
financial collapse coming, and what has followed? Do you even understand
it yet? History may be amazed at your ignorance. And yet all the signs
of trouble were there during the period from 1999 to 2007.
Some people were warning of the credit bubble, the imbalanced financial
sector, and widespread fraud. And the American people were distracted
by a 'war on terror,' and not the collapse of their lives and savings
after the decimation from a brutal world war that left the flower of
their youth dead, crippled, or broken."