From 1933 to 1945, Germany was ruled with an iron fist by Adolf Hitler and the Nazis. They eventually used Refuge in Audacity to kill millions of people they found undesirable with about half (using the 12 million death figure) being Jews, the rest being various other groups that often got picked on in Europe: communists, Gypsies, homosexuals, Jehovah's Witnesses, the mentally ill, disabled people, Slavs, etc. The Nazis also officially started the most destructive war in human history, which killed even more people (roughly 50 million). The result is that they are considered by many the most evil group of people that ever lived, and therefore easy and acceptable to make look bad.