The mayor of one of the neighboring towns to a camp hung himself after the forced tour of it post-liberation.
It’s one thing to ignore authoritarians going after a minority group and turn a blind eye, especially when speaking up or opposing those authoritarians can get you killed.
But it’s entirely a different thing to be directly confronted with the suffering you’d turned a blind eye to.
Just as we saw with the Milgram experiment that obedience to authority was not a ‘German’ thing but a ‘human’ thing, I wouldn’t be so quick to ‘other-ize’ the flip side of the empathy of the POWs pictured here.