Ordinary people behaved in a variety of ways during the Holocaust. Motives ranged from pressures to conform and defer to authorities, to opportunism and greed, to hatred. In many places, the persecution of Jews occurred against a backdrop of centuries of antisemitism. In Germany, many individuals who were not zealous Nazis nonetheless participated in varying degrees in the persecution and murder of Jews and other victims. Following German occupation, countless people in other countries also cooperated in the persecution of Jews.
Everywhere, there were witnesses on the sidelines who cheered on the active participants in persecution and violence.
How:?: Nazis wanted Lebenshraun or living space for their fellow Germans that’s why concentration camps opened in places like Warsaw or most famously Auchwitz Another factor was that the Germans wanted everyone to be of the Aryan race (blond hair,blue eyes) thus when they saw the mixed features of the Jews and non Germans they would kill them in Ghettos or Concentration Camps Hopefully this helped you a bit :)
