The Face of Battle (John Keegan, 2001)

“The trenches were the concentration camps of the First World War" (commenting on the Battle of the Somme, July 1, 1916): “Long docile lines of young men, numbers about their necks…plodded forward to their own extermination.”

More precisely, the death camps REPLICATED the trenches of the First World War: PERPETUAL SLAUGHTER. The trenches came first, the Holocaust followed as a result of the trenches. Hitler: "Do unto others as has been done unto you."

The poison gas that seeped into the gas chambers was a repetition of the poison gas that had seeped into German trenches (Hitler was a victim and suffering in a hospital when the war ended).

Hitler created the Holocaust to subject Jews to the same treatment to which German soldiers had been subjected. Jews repeated the pathetic, abject condition of German soldiers in the First World War: conveyed to a distant location in box cars; hardly imagining that death would be their fate. 
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