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They lacked access to the information.
The regular citizens, and even low level soldiers, didn’t know about the extermination camps. Allied forces forced German soldiers to watch footage of the camps and even forced the local civilians to walk through the camps.
Most people were complacent because it looked like people were ‘just’ being arrested, detained and deported. It wasn’t until after the war that they learned about the extermination camps.
We’re not running extermination camps yet, though it’s hard to imagine a good outcome for a person who is deported into an African country in the middle of a civil war. So people are largely complacent because it looks like people are only being arrested and detained.
As the poem says:
“First they came for the immigrants and I didn’t speak up because I was not an immigrant.”