> Sure. But if all Hitler had was his personal hate, he could not have killed
> millions of people. That required a vast, rationally organized bureaucratic
> system. Without that system, the Holocaust could not have occurred.
The technology of the Holocaust was developed at least in part to overcome the emotional resistance of the perpetrators. Gas-vans were designed to minimise the "psychological injuries" being incurred by the Einsatzgruppen in the course of their Jew-hunting (they found unloading the corpses particularly distressing). Himmler praised the SS men who sensed that it was wrong to comit genocide but who overcame their own resistance and did their historical duty. He thought this was evidence of their racial superiority.
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