Hitler providing his rationale for the Final Solution:
SEE: VERMIN QUOTES

Alternative translation: "Nature is cruel. Therefore, we too may be cruel. If I don't mind sending the pick of the German people into the hell of war without regret, then naturally I have the right to destroy millions of men of inferior races who increase like vermin."

Hitler understood that as leader of a great nation, he had the right to send his soldiers into battle and without regretting that millions of his soldiers might die.

Sending soldiers into battles where they might be killed is a cultural norm. Nations have the right to kill (link).

It followed logically, Hitler reasoned, that he also had the right to destroy Germany's mortal enemy, the Jew. If he had the right to order the death of his own soldiers, why wouldn't he also have the right to destroy the Jewish people?

We thus understand Hitler's rationale for the Final Solution. If a nation has the right to send its best people to die in war, why would a nation not also have the right to send its worse people to their deaths?

This was Hitler's rationale for the Holocaust, the logic of the Final Solution. The acceptability of killing enemy soldiers was the independent variable, killing Jews a dependent variable.

Richard Koenigsberg