> I don’t think they want to be doing these things some of them are being ordered to do, and I think that continuing to do bad things is how fascists are able to take hold.

Check out "Ordinary Men" by Christopher R. Browning.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_R._Browning#Ordina...

Also check out this one, written to counter Ordinary Men.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hitler%27s_Willing_Executioner...

It's not well-regarded, but I think that one thing the book tries to bring to light is the context and valence of values of the times, and the political furor of that era which directly contributed to the hatred and violence. I'm not sure that it's fair to say that they were just following orders without looking at the broader social context that people were living in up to the point that those orders were given.

I think that his concept of "eliminationist racism" is somewhat accurate, as I have known race-based supremacists in real life, and have had them protest/counter-protest public events I have been involved with providing security for.

I don't support racial supremacy or hatred in any way, in case that was ambiguous or unclear from context.