Seventy years after the fact, the Holocaust still haunts European society. How could the nation of poets and thinkers embrace the mass murder of millions of unarmed civilians, including the complete destruction of Europe’s Jewish and Roma communities? Learn in this episode the stages that predated genocide, as well as what factors may have led the Nazi high command to make such an unthinkable decision. We’ll also examine the role played by non-Germans in the story: as bystanders, perpetrators and as rescuers.