People who go on and on about Nazi stuff that happened 60 or more years ago while not noticing what's going on right now in their own front yard and being done by their own governments right now are living in a fool's paradise.

Hitler is not our problem any more. Our present leaders are our problem. Our present system is our problem.

And most people obey them, don't they? That is your "patriotic duty", isn't it?

"I just followed orders. My country, right or wrong."

Most people do now do what most Germans did then. They obey orders from their superiors. As always. The penalties for not obeying are stringent. The benefits of obeying are to move up in the pecking order and be seen as a "good citizen".

Very little, if anything, has really changed. Countries go to war to secure vital resources and valuable land and to control markets. They go to war to build empires for themselves at others' expence. They pretend to have all kinds of other wonderful, idealistic reasons for doing it, but they lie. They use their largely innocent citizenry to do the killing of others who are also innocent. They pretend to be engaging in defensive actions when they blatantly and pre-emptively attack others without any real reason but to seek their own gain. Today's "good guy", today's "defender of freedom" will BE tomorrow's Hitler if he loses a great war. Wait and see, if you live long enough. If not, your children or their children will carry the burden...and possibly even be assigned some of the blame. Guilt by association.