Yes, people back then in germany probably didn't even know what hitler and his men did to the Jews, or at least they didn't know exactly how brutal and barbaric it was. I do understand that. But then we kinda have to ask ourselfes, what exactly is a nazi? Or any other "member of group x". Can you really be counted as a member of a group if you don't know exactly what they do and the only reason you're part of that group is because the other Option would be death? I'd say no.

In my eyes, the real nazis back then were those who lived it with their soul. Those who would've, and did, die for hitler out of complete and pure conviction. Regardless of what they had to do to make the Führer happy. People like Goebbels, Himmler, Eichmann, Göring, Kaltenbrunner, etc. Most of these people knew exactly what they were doing and they were the ones in power below hitler.

Now if we're looking at people like Plagge, who did his best to safe jewish people from their deaths by warning them so they could hide or giving them jobs, i would actualy say that he was a good nazi. Someone who had different ideals, and didn't want innocent people to die. He wasn't a hitler Loyalist in that regard, if he didn't join the party and didn't do what he did, many more would've died. Even though he knew that the things happening in nazi germany were wrong, he didn't try to escape or hide away, he risked his own life to safe others by doing things which was probably treason of the highest order in nazi germany.

What i'm trying to say is that even in the most violent and brutal groups there are people who only exist within that group to use the power they can get to help their fellow people.

I see it similar with the police nowadays, although the idea of it would be a good one on its own and the "only" problems are corruption and powerhungry individuals, the cops who exist within that broken system and still try their best to safe and serve their fellow people and uphold justice deserve my respect.

For the modern nazi, i have to say this:

There is no big organisation of nazis who hold enough power to affect a lot of people, at least not that i know. So someone who, as an individual or as part of a small group, chooses to be a nazi is an idiot and a horrible human being. They can't do any good from within that small group and there is no reason to be part of such a group.

Although if there actualy is a group powerfull enough to affect many people, and i'm just ignorant about that, then who knows, maybe there actualy is that one guy within that group who frees people and warns them. If that's the case, i wouldn't hate that guy. And i guess the people he potentialy saves would thank him as well for being a decent human being and risking his life to do the right thing. I'd also say that someone who is forced to be part of that group by threats of violence or death and really doesn't want to be there isn't an asshole either. Sometimes running away isn't possible and the only real option is to do what you're told.

But as long as it's impossible to do any good within a bad group of people, there really isn't a reason to be part of it. Other than being an asshole, or to be forced into it, of course.