These are phrases that were commonly heard in the past, albeit not in English:
- I didn’t vote for Hitler, I voted against the Communists.
- Don’t blame me, I voted for Hindenburg.
- It’s all the fault of those anarchists and socialists. If they hadn’t been making trouble, none of this would have happened.
- They told us they were just work camps. You couldn’t trust anything in the papers those days, how was I to know what to believe?
After the war, the people who said these things were referred to as “Good Germans”. Irony meters had to be recalibrated globally as a result.
