[LyndsySimon]

From my reading on the subject, many Germans did. Some of them were intimidated into silence on the matter, while others acted in support of the genocide directly or indirectly.

Many Germans - whether or majority is up for debate - supported the Holocaust as they understood and/or admitted it to themselves at the time.

As an aside, your grammar is incorrect in your comment. I mean absolutely no offense by this and I'm hesitant to point it out, but if it were me I would want to be corrected. "had took" should be "had taken".

[Cozumel]

You must be a Grammar Nazi because you're anti-semantic! :p

[LyndsySimon]

The irony of correcting someone's grammar in a discussion about Nazis was not lost on me :)

[KSS42]

You forgot to mention the lack of a period at the end of the sentance

[Y201K]

I don't doubt your intentions and it was nice of you to preface your correction with such reservation, but I gotta give a shout-out to descriptivism: if you can understand what's meant, maybe it's not incorrect!

[LyndsySimon]

That's a good point, and I don't disagree.

For some background, I grew up in northern Arkansas. I have a very pronounced Southern accent if I allow myself to, and I've always made it a point to carefully enunciate and use "correct" (read: "Standard American English") grammar because my native accent is one that's generally associated with lower education or even lower intelligence.

I credit my vocabulary with my reading everything I could early in life. I'm in my early thirties and there are still times when I have to ask others how to pronounce a word because I've never heard it spoken. I would much rather take the embarrassment of asking over the implicit judgement that people make if I badly mispronounce a word.

[geoka9]

I find this site very helpful for many languages, including English:

https://forvo.com/languages/en/

[coldtea]

>but I gotta give a shout-out to descriptivism: if you can understand what's meant, maybe it's not incorrect!

I can understand what is meant from 8-bit recordings of a voice. But I'd rather have 16 or 24-bit recordings and even more nuance and information.

[inimino]

...and that's not even what descriptivism means.