Life has a way of forging on — even in the face of evil. A new political regime may present and enact policies that harm many, but for those who benefit from the policy or regime (or at least are not immediately affected by them), many just wake up, get ready, and go about their days.
While the Nazis, for example, perpetrated atrocities against Jews and others they deemed second-class citizens, many other Germans were simply living their lives.
They went to school, joined clubs, got married, went to work, went shopping... They did everything that every normal person does – but they did it before the backdrop of one of the darkest periods in history.
Yet in the shadows of everyday life in Nazi Germany, horror became quotidian.
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