Lynn, 'the Germans' you are speaking of are the NAZIS.  
There were millions of Germans who HATED the regime of Adolph Hitler.  
They were good people caught in a web of lies and deceit by that man, and they paid the ultimate price.  Even NON-Jewish Germans were put in the concentration camps, and summarily slaughtered....Priests, and Ministers, and any person that didn't choose to follow the doctrine of Hitler.   They didn't get 'paid', and only soup and broth to eat.  They lost everything that they owned........
That is a time in history that should never be forgotten.