Third, Finkelstein deduces from some Germans' disgust at the destruction of Jewish lives and property during Nazi-sponsored pogroms such as Kristallnacht that Germans overwhelmingly condemned the Nazi anti-Semitic atrocities.
Using some Germans' disgust at Kristallnacht and other Nazi pogroms where Jews were killed as evidence, Finkelstein suggests the German people were overwhelmingly unhappy with the horrors the Nazis committed against Jews.