Genocide as an Immunological Fantasy:
Eliminating Human Beings who have no right to reside within the body politic
Richard Koenigsberg

Abstract: Hitler stated that his policy revolved around making the German people "immune" against an infection by avoiding close contact with the carriers of "this poisonous bacillus." Goebbels wrote that extermination of the Jews was an unavoidable manifestation of the "life-and-death struggle" between the Aryan race and "poisonous bacillus." Himmler stated that Germans had the "moral right" to "destroy this people that wanted to destroy us." We do not want, he said, to be "infected by this bacillus and to die." 

Himmler believed the struggle of peoples against Jews had belonged to the "natural course of life on our planet." This struggle of life against death was a "law of nature," equivalent to the struggle of the "plague bacillus against the healthy body."

These statements are a sample of hundreds-of-thousands of similar ones that dominated the era of National Socialsim. The fundamental meaning of Nazism was the desire to rescue Germany by destroying Jewish bacteria threatening the life of the nation.

Of course, Jews are not bacteria. National Socialism and the Final Solution revolved around a fantasy--that was shared by many German people. 

It is not necessary to write additional "history books." To understand National Socialism, the Final Solution, and the war of extermination against "Jewish-Bolsheviks" is simply to deconstrcut this Nazi fantasy; to unraveal its meaning.

Hitler

Himmler

Goebbels
In a speech before the Reichstag on Jan. 30, 1937, Hitler explained the anti-Jewish policy he had inaugurated in National Socialist Germany:
We endeavor, as well as we can, to make the German people immune against this infection. A part of our measures is the avoidance of any close relationship with the carriers of this poisonous bacillus.

Measures to isolate and avoid contact with Jews evolved into the policy of extermination. Goebbels acknowledged in his diary entry of March 27, 1942 that the procedure was "pretty barbaric" and wrote that "not much will remain of the Jews." However, he was unapologetic. The policy of the Nazis, Goebbels believed, was necessary and unavoidable, a manifestation of the "life-and-death struggle" being waged between the "Aryan race and the Jewish bacillus."

Himmler, in a famous speech delivered to SS leaders and army generals on October 6, 1943, defended the radical policy undertaken by the Nazis:

If the Jews were still lodged in the body of the German nation, we would by now have reached the state of 1916-1917. We had the moral right, the duty towards our people to destroy this people that wanted to destroy us.
We do not want, in the end, because we have destroyed a bacillus to be infected by this bacillus and to die. I will not stand by while a slight infection forms. Whenever such an infected spot appears, we will burn it out.

The Nazi’s had the “moral right” to destroy the Jews, Himmler believed, because the Jews wanted to destroy Germany. It was necessary to “burn out” the infected spot.

In his 1935-6 propaganda booklet about the SS as an anti-Bolshevik battle organization, Himmler describes the struggle that has occurred throughout history between Jews and nations:

This battle against peoples conducted by Jews has belonged, so far as we can look back, to the natural course of life on our planet. One can calmly reach the conviction that this struggle of life and death is quite as much a law of nature as man's struggle against some epidemic, as the struggle of the plague bacillus against the healthy body.

Himmler states that the battle conducted by Jews against nations has belonged to the “natural course of life on our planet.” The struggle of life against death is as much a “law of nature” as man’s “struggle against some epidemic”—and as the “struggle of the plague bacillus against the healthy body.”

In other words, there are two struggles that are natural: the struggle of the plague-bacillus against the healthy body (struggle of Jews against nations); and man’s struggle against “some epidemic.” Jews struggling against nations and nations struggling against Jews, this was the “natural course of life on the planet.”

Who would prove victorious in this life against death struggle, the German nation or the Jewish bacillus? This was the question posed by the Nazis. Germany had to defeat or destroy the Jewish bacillus before the bacillus destroyed Germany.