I learned about World War II, Hitler, and The Third Reich from living through it on the Homefront.  I read everything I could get my hands after I overheard my dad say that he would kill his family and himself before he would subject us to the Nazis if they invaded our country.  I was 9 or 10 years old. All came to the surface with the liberation of the camps, the Nuremberg trials, and years later, accounts of survivors. It was then that a question arose in my mind:  How can human beings treat other human beings with such utter cruelty?  Separation of families, ruthless “medical” experiments, starvation, gassing, burning bodies, torture. Over six million people.