interview--Exploring the Holocaust-How Could It Happen?

Dr. Dan McMillan was curious about why Germany, a bastion of learning and science, was the place where the unique horror of the Holocaust was born and carried out. He earned a PhD in German history, and brings a scholar's eye to the conditions in the relatively new nation of Germany that led to it. A declining moral code, an anger over how Germany was blamed for WWI and punished financially for it, how the political chaos of post-Bismarck Germany coupled with the war destabilized it and led to bitter factional warfare, fear over the communists success in Russia, Hitler's ascension from national figure to messiah, bad science of eugenics and its racist foundation, plus growing anti-Semitism, combined for a horrible storm.