I've taught European history for 30 years. Americans have always asked me how the Holocaust was possible, how Germans could have enabled a madman reveling in mass murder to carry out his plans. Now we can see in real time how this is enabled; now we have front-row seats.
This is how it is done. The Italians are happy built a new metro right beside the Colosseum..yet here in Ireland people protest against infrastructure which might undermine the historic architecture of Ranelagh!!