You used a different euphemism ("they had it coming") which also serves as atrocity apologia. Which I think goes to show how slippery the myths of violence in our society are, how even when making a conscious effort to recognize and name them they can get away from us. In the same way "industrial workers" can be used to dehumanize and to justify the unjustifiable, "people who had to coming" seeks to put all Germans in the same box and then judge each of them by the worst actions of any of them, in order to sentence them to death.

I appreciate your comments.