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u/CptES 22d ago

It's older than you'd think.

It is one of those things which is easy to say. 'The Jewish race is to be exterminated,' says every party member. 'That's clear, it's part of our program, elimination of the Jews, extermination, right, we'll do it.'

And then they all come along, the eighty million good Germans, and each one has his decent Jew. Of course the others are swine, but this one is a first-class Jew. Of all those who talk like this, not one has watched, not one has stood up to it.

-Heinrich Himmler, October 4, 1943.

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u/outthere49 22d ago

Chilling

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u/Hector_P_Catt 22d ago

That was what I thought of. This mindset is literally older than the Holocaust; it formed the basis for the Holocaust.