Heinrich Himmler, Reichsführer - Ss, about the extermination of the jews
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Heinrich Himmler, executor of the death sentences.
Whether nations live in prosperity or starve to death interests me only in so far as we need them as slaves for our culture.
Otherwise it does not interest me. Whether 10,000 Russian women fall by exhaustion or not at a construction of a tank ditch, I'm interested only in so far as the tank ditch for Germany is finished.
I also want to mention a very difficult issue. I mean the extermination of the Jewish people.
It is one of the things that are easily said. "The Jewish people is being exterminated," every Party member will tell you, "perfectly clear, in our program there, elimination of the Jews, extermination, we do, ha. Small thing."
Of you, most will know what it means when 100 bodies lie together, when 500 lie there or when 1,000 are there. [...] And to have hold this out and [...] to have remained decent [...] is a never-mentioned and never to mention page of glory.
A German speech. This recording was made for the private archive, as proof of performance. Himmler's men drive people to be shot in the neck in the pit.
