HITLER: "If I have the right as national leader to wage war and to require the death of my own soldiers, why don't I also have the right to send Jews--enemies of the German people--to their deaths?"

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RECOLLECTED IN TRANQUILITY:: TOWARD THE FINAL SOLUTION
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Warfare is the setting or occasion when nations are permitted to kill enemies and to sacrifice their own soldiers in the name of their country. If nations can sacrifice their own soldiers, Hitler reasoned, why could he not sacrifice Jews as well. He declared:

If I don’t mind sending the pick of the German people into the hell of war without the slightest regret for the spilling of precious German blood, then I naturally also have the right to eliminate millions of an inferior race that breeds like vermin.

The Holocaust grew out of Hitler’s insight into the nature of warfare. If he as a national leader had the right to order his own soldiers to die, why did he not also have the right to send the mortal enemies of the German people to their deats as well?
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The CSUN College of Social and Behavioral Sciences is pleased to present the Richard W. Smith Lecture in Culture Studies with special guest, Dr. Richard A. Koenigsberg. Psychologist, historian and leading authority on Hitler and Nazism