As much as he did not want to admit it, Bertie knew that they, civilians, had all known for a long time now what Hitler had been doing. All the death and carnage and mass murder, especially of the Jews. They had known and many of them had convinced themselves that this behavior was good and rational. It could not have been done without their cooperation. They could have stopped it if enough of them had banded together early enough. Surely they could have. Bertie was innocent, yet he felt very much not. Could he have done more? Did it excuse him for hiding, being one of the heads on the
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