When I was a very young teen, I spent 100's of hours reading and studying about how Germany had ever come to commit the atrocities of the Holocaust. (yes, I know that the true Bush Leaguer Believer, does NOT believe that the Holocaust ever really happened).

Germany at that time, was the most well educated country on the face of the Earth. .. More literate, and college educated than even England, USA, and France.

Yet, when the Zealous True Believers took over the legislature and the courts of Germany,, all of mankind's thousands of years of science, and rational thought went down the toilet

And the World was wrought with the Deaths of the many many untold millions...