Hitler’s project was to create a people so closely united—fused together—that they could think, feel and act as a single organism. Such a body politic would be indestructible, not only in the present, but in the future as well.

Hitler and the Nazis devoted their lives toward creating an organism that would be different from all other organisms. They aspired to fashion a body (politic) that was so healthy and powerful that it would not succumb to death.

The Jew in Hitler’s ideology was the anti-thesis of an immortal body politic: a force working to cause the German nation to disintegrate. National Socialism, at its core, was the attempt or struggle to master or come to terms with this Jewish "force of disintegration."

The “Final Solution” crystallized the Nazi's struggle against death, taking the form radical surgery, the purpose of which was to “remove” Germany’s force of disintegration (the Jew or death instinct operating within the German organism).

Despite Hitler’s efforts to create a perfectly healthy nation, Hitler’s own death instinct continually returned in the form of his belief that Germany was disintegrating. Hitler projected this struggle of “life against death” into the political arena, waging a furious battle to “maintain the body of the people.” He aspired to defeat death by embracing the idea of a body politic that could live forever.

The “Jew” represented and reflected Hitler’s own experience: perception of his own death instinct operating within his own body. Cognitively speaking, Hitler perception of the death instinct operating within his body amounted to his recognition or realization of the truth: that all bodies die; there are no such thing as immortal bodies. Deep down, Hitler recognized that the Nazi's dream of eternal life was an illusion or delusion.

In spite of Hitler’s struggle to deny death, he could not entirely repress the voice within that spoke the truth. Still, Hitler refused to heed this inner voice telling him that all bodies die. Rather, upon hearing this voice, Hitler became infuriated, enraged. To embrace the truth, Hitler would have had to acknowledge that his Nazi project had been in vain; that he had devoted his life to an illusion.

Therefore, in a climactic act of manic determination, Hitler initiated the Final Solution: a struggle to destroy death—the Jew—once and for all. Hitler insisted that Germany would not die; that the body politic could live on forever--if only Jews could be removed from within this body.

Genocide represented Hitler’s final attempt to solve the problem of death by destroying Jews, who symbolized the death-instinct—the reality that all bodies eventually disintegrate.