KOENIGSBERG: The Jew in the Holocaust symbolized the German soldier in the First World War. The First World War was the independent variable, the Holocaust the dependent variable.

Hitler's thinking? Do unto others as had been done unto you. 
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Bartov, Omer.  Murder in Our Midst: The Holocaust, Industrial Killing and Representation. Ordering information at the bottom of this page. 

"The Holocaust was the almost perfect reenactment of the Great War, with the important correction that all the perpetrators were on one side and all the victims on the other.

verything else was there: the barbed wire, the machine guns, the charred bodies, the gas, the uniforms, the military discipline, the barracks. But this reenactment had the great advantage that it was totally safe for the guards.

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