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One thing I took from the book is that only 1 million of Germans out of 80 million in 1939 was part of the system that killed the Jews (worked in the ministries, railways, police, Gestapo, SS). The rest 79 million were not exposed-and the Nazis did not trumpet how many Jews were killed or how many synagogues were burned in the prior month.

The 10 people in the book did see Jews leaving their cities, but they did not think much of it. One of the 10 people said something to the effect of : “yeah, probably it was not easy for them to leave. But it was not easy for me either when I was unemployed”. I got the impression those 10 people did not really like the Jews (they certainly had their prejudices against them) but they did not hate them either (in some cases they visited each other houses and sometimes they traded with each other)