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Yes to a point. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/01/27/holocaust-non-jewish-victims_n_6555604.html Both viewpoints, Communism and National Socialism were/are two sides of the same coin-which is the elimination of basic rule of law and decency to the point where the only thing that really mattered was having power. If you were part of the "in" group you were generally okay, but if you stepped outside of the allowable opinion you were branded as a heretic, lost your job, and most likely killed. While race had a lot to do with Germany, and eliminating wholesale a group of people is despicable, IMO the most insidious part of those governments was the way they turned neighbors and friends against each other. The Gestapo were only able to operate with the active cooperation of the people. The movie Alone in Berlin describes this, to speak out against the allowable opinion was a death sentence. An unallowable opinion was a death sentance While we don't kill people here (yet) for having an unallowable opinion . . . how much better are we as a culture and a people when individuals who have committed no acts of violence are not arrested, are then "outed" on social media as having an unallowable opinion and fired for their jobs. Not for any illegal action, not for any action that physically hurt another individual (if they did they should be in jail), but simply for holding an unallowable opinion. Is that a route that society should go down?