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Our humanity has been compromised by those who useGestapo tactics inour [Iraq] war. The longer we stand idly by while they do so, the more we resemble those “good Germans” who professed ignorance of their own Gestapo.
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"Good Germans" is a phrase that originally referred to citizens ofNazi Germany who, after Germany’s defeat inWorld War II, claimed not to have supported the regime, yet made no claim to have opposed it in any significant way. This was widely noted byAllied occupation troops, who were amazed and appalled by the widespread disavowal of responsibility for Nazi crimes among the German populace. For example:
The term has come to be used to refer more generically to people in any country who observe reprehensible things taking place — whether done by a government or by another powerful institution — but remain silent, neither raising objections nor taking steps to change the course of events.