Bureaucratic destruction advances through defined, expropriation, ghettoization, then annihilation

Evidence

The process of destruction unfolded in a definite pattern … a stepby-step operation… . The steps of the destruction process were introduced in the following order. At first the concept of the Jew was defined; then the expropriatory operations were inaugurated; third, the Jews were concentrated in ghettos; finally, the decision was made to annihilate European Jewry. Mobile killing units were sent to Russia, while in the rest of Europe the victims were deported to killing centers… . It is the bureaucratic destruction process that in its step-by-step manner finally led to the annihilation of 5 million victims. (pp. 53, 47) Referring to the incremental feature of his experimental procedure, Milgram (1974) said: “The laboratory hour is an unfolding process in which each action influences the next. — Leonard S. Newman and Ralph Erber (eds.), Understanding Genocide, 660

Categorization

• XREF: Hilberg’s staged sequence maps onto the reader’s perpetrator-becoming materials and any process model of escalating exclusion. — connects to: The administratable definition-registration-segregation-eviction sequence escalated to extermination. — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 305

Broader Connections

• The administratable definition-registration-segregation-eviction sequence escalated to extermination. #corroborates (0.95) — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 305