a sense of joy and then a panic

I can't fathom how people go around thinking in black and white and can't realize that Nazis were ordinary people just like them, and so is everybody else. Drove me nuts when we had to read this history book about Nazi Germany that was all about their "political religion" as if we were so morally superior and we had to study how such a despicable thing came to be. Newsflash: most people are not any better than Nazis--only their situation is better.