It's OK Nanner, it was just karma playing out. The reality is I guess that a key step on the spiritual path is to see and come to terms with the groundless nature of the fact that none of human institutions are very reliable, and that while they come wrapped in all sorts of self serving propaganda all are shot through by the narrow and unwise self interest of those controlling them.
It's unfortunately the egotists that normally rise to the top. Be that in politics, nationalism, law, medicine, technology, popular culture, industry, the military, the institutional churches - whatever.
Blink has hit the nail on the head.
The important aspect of the whole story of WW2 is that we use it to waken up, that we connect with a more accurate version of the reality, that we draw the right message from the whole episode so that it's less likely to happen again.
We've touched on big political, international banking, industrial, religious and other interests as playing a part. (They have by the way continued this pattern of backing totalitarian regimes ever since - apart from those they choose to set up as enemies and demonise that is - look at the various S American strongmen, the Shah of Iran, Saddam Hussein and so on. Look too at recent politics, propaganda and the military/industrial complex in the US, and in other countries, and the way they have brought us to the brink yet again.)
The mood of the german people in the aftermath of the reparations imposed by the WW1 allies combined with a militaristic vibe dating from way back (but focused by Bismarck and the like) played a part too.
Not to mention the 'sins of omission' of all the ordinary people and political leaders across the world who turned a blind eye initially to the suffering in germany, and later to the rise of Nazism. And who are continuing to do so to what's happening today.
There's rather a large lobby that it suits to hang the blame for the whole WW2 affair on Uncle Adolf. While he was far from blameless, that's clearly a highly selective and very partial view. But one (if we judge by the stridency and insistence of the continuing propaganda to that effect that takes in so many) that many want to keep alive. (which suggests by the way that many know something they don't want ordinary people to realise)
That includes those today that want to retain the ability to ultilise power, force, war and repression as a means of forcing through their ends.
The one thing that can stop them is a population that stops believing their self serving fairy stories about winners and losers, heroes, bravery, romanticism about the military, the civilisation threatening spectre of Bin laden (just another individual in a cave, but one harnessing precisely the same vibe that Hitler did - which exists for precisely the same reasons) and so on.
It comes back to the belief that the (selfish) means justifies the end versus living from wisdom and compassion yet again. There's many that quite genuinely see the former as 'good sense', or at least as the only option available.
It's our task to wake up, to play our part in showing the world that there's another way of seeing, being and doing that works.....