How we cite our quotes: (Book.Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #7
In the background, to be sure, there lurked the terror of the Gestapo and the fear of the concentration camp for those who got out of line or who had been Communists or Socialists or too liberal or too pacifist, or who were Jews. […] Yet the Nazi terror in the early years affected the lives of relatively few Germans and a newly arrived observer was somewhat surprised to see that the people of this country did not seem to feel that they were being cowed and held down by an unscrupulous and brutal dictatorship. (2.8.2)
What gives rise to that kind of complacency? Is it hatred? Ignorance? Fear?
Quote #8
The Jews and the Slavic peoples were the Untermenschen—subhumans. To Hitler they had no right to live, except as some of them, among the Slavs, might be needed to toil in the fields and the mines as slaves of their German masters. (5.27.2)
The Nazi view that Jewish and Slavic peoples were less-than-human was one of things that made it easy for the Nazis to engage in genocide with hardly a thought. No right to live—that's chilling.
Quote #9
Whether nations live in prosperity or starve to death like cattle interests me only in so far as we need them as slaves to our Kultur; otherwise it is of no interest to me. Whether 10,000 Russian females fall down from exhaustion while digging an anti-tank ditch interests me only in so far as the antitank ditch for Germany is finished. (5.27.4-5)
This is Heinrich Himmler, chief of the S.S., lecturing his officers. This cold indifference is almost scarier than Hitler's hateful rantings.