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 .