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The Jews in death camps symbolized German soldiers slaughtered during the Second World War. Jews would replicate in the camps what pathetic German soldiers were suffering.
Hitler created a performance, the fate of the Jew symbolizing the abject fate of the German soldier.
THE BASIC QUOTE (Hitler): “If I don’t mind sending the pick of the German people into the hell of war without regret for the shedding of valuable German blood, then I have naturally the right to destroy millions of men of inferior races who increase like vermin.”
Same quote translated in Joachim Fest’s HITLER: “Nature is cruel; therefore, we are also entitled to be cruel. When I send the flower of German youth into the steel hail of the next war without feeling the slightest regret over the precious German blood that is being spilled, should I not also have the right to eliminate millions of an inferior race that multiplies like vermin?”
Hitler reflected: “If society allows me to send my sacred soldiers their deaths, why can’t I send Jews to their deaths as well?"
Hitler revealed the logic of warfare, which led to the logic of the Holocaust: "If society gives me the right to kill my own soldiers, certainly society will not object if I (also) kill the Jews."
Richard Koenigsberg
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