Of course George you believe what you choose to fit best but it has always been so, as a vacuum of news such as you and I lived through due to very little media output unlike the deficating enormity of today left you in the same situation.
At least we lived under our firms motto "No Information is always better than false Information".
So no help todays kids with not a vestige of common sense but 4 A levels they can't decide whether they need the can or not. just dither..
Do read Leon Uris QB VII also Dr Mengele's vile experimentation on women in the Gestapo camps.
We did invent the Concentration Camps but others utilised them to further dehumanise the poor souls that were incarcerated there by carrying out medical experiments on them to further accelerate the Arian Race.
So I totally disagree with you - some nations including the Japanese and Chinese actively enjoy such practises.
You just watch one of their abysmal TV game shows - now that is sickness personified.