Posting this tonight for no particular reason:

"Historians have a word for Germans who joined the Nazi party, not because they hated Jews, but out of a hope for restored patriotism, or a sense of economic anxiety, or a hope to preserve their religious values, or dislike of their opponents, or raw political opportunism, or convenience, or ignorance, or greed.

That word is 'Nazi.' Nobody cares about their motives anymore."
- @JuliusGoat

@jik @JuliusGoat While I agree with your sentiment, I do think historians care a lot about motives. Speculating about how and why people behaved as they did in the past is crucial to understanding why events happened. Which is in turn helpful if you want to explain or even alter the present.