My Mother, Dad, and Aunt, told us about what they had seen first hand.
1. Respectible people they had known that were Jews, disagreed with the Nazis, helped, and even traded with the Jews were dragged out in the street with their families, beaten, arrested or shot. They made everybody watch this to enforce the fear of complience. During the war, you were forbidden to flee, even during the fighting and filming resulted in death.
2. Mom and my Aunt said that children had went to play near Auswitz and were never seen again.
3. Per Dads comment about the railway track switches, "North you had a chance, East and South you were on the wsy to Hell." He discribed the shame and sick feeling of seeing those rail cars that you vould hear the people that were crammed into them. You knew what their fate was. During yhe burning af the Synagogs, the smell of the smoke made you ill.
3. There was rapes, looting and abuse by both sides. German leadership encuraged it. I doubt our military leaders would approve. Just like those idiots that abused prisoners at Abu Ghraib. There are sickos in every group.