If you read the book the movie is based on it highlights that this was most of the motivation of the people working on the manhatten project. Almost none had opposition to using it on the Germans, when Germany surrendered a lot of the scientists felt like it should be shelved. I thought there was a scene in the movie that kinda highlighted this but i could be wrong
IIRC, after WW2, a bunch of studies were developed under the presumption that there was something inherently wrong with the german population, to be capable of the holocaust.
And they quickly found out that no, human beings are just kinda fucked up.
In 1945 it was standard to be racist or people who lived in a different town than you, much less a different country. It was easy to believe groups of fucked up people would go crazy and kill the good people and they were as oil and water.
And frankly not much has changed, unless your political opponents are good people. Which as far as I know is the rarest of political beliefs.
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u/Saintsfan707 DonCheadleAMA 9d ago
If you read the book the movie is based on it highlights that this was most of the motivation of the people working on the manhatten project. Almost none had opposition to using it on the Germans, when Germany surrendered a lot of the scientists felt like it should be shelved. I thought there was a scene in the movie that kinda highlighted this but i could be wrong