In Germany, leading up to the Nazi atrocities, the population kept allowing for encroachments on them that they knew were wrong because they were “small” enough not to make a fuss over. Over the course of about 8 years, though, the “small” things had added up to “it’s too late to do anything now,” and they were powerless against the heinous. They allowed it, little by little, because they thought the horrific could never really happen. “No one would actually do that.” The people won’t allow it.” But it did.