Some corners don't have a concealed anything. Most corners don't. This makes it worse. Eventually you get so used to a big, safe nothing that when the plasma bolts fly it's a "Nearly spilled my tea!" shock.
It was the 'discipline' of the Germans, not their criminality, that made the Nazis fearsome. It was the loyalty, patriotism and commitment of the Soviet and Chinese communists that enabled the mass persecution and destructive-labor camp elimination of their countrymen.