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Once you stop treating human beings as humans, but as animals, holocaustal events are made possible. This is also what a film like The Texas Chainsaw Massacre is about, albeit not on a genocidal level. On a somewhat distateful tangent, I am reminded of Eric Schlosser's book Fast Food Nation. In it he describes, among other things, the modus operandi of one of the large meatpackers somewhere in the mid west. Every day, 3000 cattle enter the factory at one side, and leave as millions of identical, packaged hamburgers the other side. If one were to hypothetically substitute the cattle with humans, the holocaustal nature of such an operation would become instantly visible.

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Thanks. This is quite interesting in a horrific sort of way. What you seem to be saying is that the willingness to kill for no particular reason other than having been told far exceeds that of the hatred on any particular group. But why, might I ask, were the einsatzen volunteers?
 
What you seem to be suggesting is that the "science" of racial inferiority made them do it; and so they behaved as if killing old chickens who can no longer produce eggs. Germanoids needed lebensraum, and that was that.
 
Hatreds of others seem like ideological excuses in order to go to war. In this sense, the Japanese and the Americans fought a war based somewhat upon race. But what you're suggesting is that the German mind (at that epoch) attempted a dispassionate sort of genocide. This is Arendt with a vengeance, indeed! 
 
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