Hitler imagined that some individuals did not wish to be “at one” with the national body; to fuse with it. These individuals were conceived as disrupting the fantasy of national unity. Because they sought to exist in a condition of “separateness” from the nation, Jews had to be destroyed. The Final Solution, was a vehicle for bringing Jews back into the fold: uniting them with the German body politic. The death camps served to re-incorporate Jews into the national body. In opposition to their wish to separate from Germany, they would become "one" with the nation: Fusion as death.

Hitler sought the “resurrection” of Germany. In his rise to power, people suggested that Germany’s problems were insurmountable; that tbe nation could never recover. Germany, some insisted, was dead and done for. Hitler disagree. He fulminated:

Therefore let no one object ‘But this is impossible’. That no one can—no one must—say to me. I am not one of the men who allow themselves to say, ‘It is impossible’. It must be possible. For Germany must live.

This idea, “Germany must live,” lay at the core of Hitler’s ideology. He believed that Germany was dead or in danger of dying. He aspired to bring the nation back to life. Refusing to accept the death of Germany, Hitler's ideology revolved around“saving the country.”

Hitler conceived of the German people as a single, massive body consisting of German people as cells of this body. According to Hitler's totalitarian idea, nothing could be permitted to exist in a condition of separation from this body. Rather, everything had to exist as part of this body.

The problem was: tbat which was defective within the nation also was connected to the national body.

Deformed children, the mentally ill and Jews--were conceived by Hitler as defective bodies existing in a state of connection to the perfect German body-politic. These defective people, therefore, had to be “separated” from the German body: extricated, extirpated in order to maintain the purity and perfection of this body.

Hitler’s mission was to save the German nation from death by destroying the disease within the nation: source of death, the Jew. The Final Solution enacted an immunological fantasy: every single Jew had to be identified and located—because Jews were like bacteria that could divide and multiply. It was necessary to make Germany “Jew-free.”

Jews were accused of being anti-social criminals--because they were perceived as lacking faith in the greatness of the nation. They were conceived as a people who were insufficiently devout. Jews were individuals who did not worship Germany.

What was considered criminal by Hitler—the idea projected into the Jew—was the wish to be separate--to separate--from the body politic. This idea of separation destroyed the condition of “oneness” that was imagined to exist between people and nation. The Jew represented separation from the community. The Jew "disintegrated" the fantasy of perfect union.

The “Jew” represented an idea or mental representation within the mind of Hitler and other Nazis. The question of genocide, therefore, revolves around the meaning of this symbolic object, the Jew. In seeking to kill Jews, what were the Nazis seeking to “kill off?” The destruction of the Jew constituted the destruction of an idea that Hitler found unbearable.

Hitler imagines that he and other Germans exist in a state of fusion with one another. The people (as cells of a body) weld and fuse together to create a massive, indestructible organism; a unified body that cannot be broken or torn apart.

Hitler imagines that some individuals do not wish to be “at one” with the national body; to fuse with it. These individuals are conceived as acting to disrupt or destroy the fantasy of unity. Because they seek to exist in a condition of “separateness” from the nation, Jews had to be destroyed.

Hitler stated that he wished to “exterminate the things that tear our volk apart.” He wished to destroy the tendency to “separate” from the body-politic; the tendency to “split” from it.

The Final Solution, therefore, was a way to bring Jews back into the fold. To re-unite them with the German body politic. The death camps served to re-incorporate Jews into the national body. In opposition to their wish to separate from Germany, they would become "one" with the nation: fusion as death.