Demjanjuk - guilty or not guilty?

[rjmacs]

Chakravartin wrote:
People of conscience stand up and do what's right. That's kind of the definition.

So, the German people were clearly not people of conscience, right? How did an entire nation of people come to be amoral? I haven't read that the Nazis were constantly mowing down waves of conscientious citizens who stood up by the millions to decry the Reich.