So I would disagree that most Nazi war criminals were no sociopaths. I would say tha the ordinary men and women who made Dachau and Belsen possible were indeed sociopaths. Look what they actually did. Or were their victims really untermensch?

True, there may be a range of reasons for sociopathic behaviour, but being able to get away with it is pretty much the hall mark of someone who lacks their own moral compass. You can't use the fact that someone only does bad things because they can get away with it as an argument that they have a functioning moral sense.

People tend to think of some mad axe-man when they hear the word "psychopath" or "sociopath". But sociopaths are rational. It's just that they are restrained in their choices not by their own sense of right and wrong, but only by the fear of consequence and punishment. A sociopath is exactly someone who behaves badly when he can get away with it.

Andries, I think you are an honest guy, but that you have underestimated the damage that cultic beliefs can do to people's ability to feel for their fellows. Almost by design, a cult strips its adherents of their own moral compass. Finding that again, and learning to use it, can be an important part of exiting.