I'm not aware of any psychological screening program (even unofficial) that the Nazis had for death camp workers. Otto Globocnik, in charge or high up of Aktion Reinhard (the code name for the murder of Polish Jewery and Stangl's boss -- Stangl despised him) was a monster, a sadist (in the bad sense) and a thug. But I think Arendt was right that the Final Solution was mainly run by bureaucrats, not psychopaths -- and even they didn't think of themselves as doing evil by and large. Kert Franz, Stangl's adjutant at Treblinka, said: "Basically I have never done wrong to anyone." He stated that he never killed or beat anyone -- well, maybe he beat someone once. This was the No. 2 guy at Treblinka,
--- Chris Doss <lookoverhere1 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> --- andie nachgeborenen
> <andie_nachgeborenen at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hell, even the commandants of the Nazi death camps
> --
> and I don't put Judge Posner, whom I like and
> respect,
> into that lot, just to be clear -- even they were
> mostly not gleeful about what they did. There's a
> great but horrifying book called Into That Darkness
> by
> a Hungarian-English journalist named Gitta Serelny,
> interviewed Franz Stangel, who was commandant of
> Treblinka, Sobibor, and before that head of the t-4
> euthansia program. He did'd cackle manically as he
> had
> Jews and the disabled shuffled off to the gas
> chambers, he viewed it as sort of a job, something
> necessary but distasteful.
>
> --
>
> Didn't the Nazis make a point of trying to make sure
> that people who worked in the Vernichtungslaeger
> _not_
> have psychological pathologies, so that they would
> be
> doing the work out of duty and not out of pleasure?
>
> My great-granduncle was euthanized in the 1930s
> (mental illness). They told the family they were
> taking him to a special hospital where he could get
> the care he needed.
>
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