"If I don't mind sending the pick of the German people into the hell of war without regret for the shedding of valuable German blood, then I have naturally the right to destroy millions of men of inferior races who increase like vermin." (Hitler as the Holocaust began in 1941).

The leaders of Germany sent their own soldiers to die in massive numbers in the the First World War. The logic of the Holocaust--the creation for which Hitler became famous--was: "If the leaders of Germany didn't mind sending the pick of the German people to be slaughtered in the First World War, then I--as the leader of the German nation during the Second World War--have no regret about the shedding of Jewish blood in the Second World War."

Hitler was one of the German soldiers who travelled to France in a boxcar during the First World War--barely escaped being slaughtered. Thinking of his comrades who were slaughtered, the logic of the Holocaust was: "Do unto others as had been done unto you." 

With murderous genius, Hitler replicated the narrative of the First World War by creating the Holocaust.

The first photo (above right) shows German soldiers in freight cars as they embarked for the Front in 1914 to fight in the First World War. They were Innocent, optimistic young men who had no clue that they were being transported to be slaughtered.

The second photo (below the top one) shows Jews as they embarked for death camps. Most (but not all) of them were innocent human beings who barely had a clue that they were being transported to slaughter.

In his study of the First World War, Denis Winter (1979) writes about the experience of German soldiers as they were transported to battle in box cars:

"After the stint at base, the railway took the men toward the front line. To a generation with visual memories of the railway lines running into Hitler’s death camps, tense faces peering from cattle trucks, there is something disconcerting about the imagery of this journey from base camp.

"The soldiers went in waggons of the same type, forty of them in each waggon, kit hanging from hoods in the roof. Death was a high probability for both generations of travelers in these cattle trucks."