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"Shoveling warm human hearts and bodies into the furnace."
Hitler replicated his experience of the First World War. We call this a repetition compulsion. However, Hitler sought to undo the traumatic experience of the First World War by substituting Jews for German soldiers.
| "Pearson told me about all the enormities he had seen at the front: the driving--the callous, perpetual driving by some great force which shoveled warm human hearts and bodies, warm human hopes, by the million into the furnace.” |
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| More men died in the First World War (9 million) than died in the Holocaust (6 million). In the First World War, men from nations throughout the world were thrown into the furnace. Hitler sought to contain and focus the mass-murdering. In the Holocaust, the primary group of people who were thrown into the furnace were Jews |
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