Even the condemned were left a rational choice among death options

Evidence

The gas chambers, temptingly dubbed ‘bathrooms’, presented a welcome sight after days spent in overcrowded, filthy cattle trucks. Those who already knew the truth and entertained no illusions still had a choice between a ‘quick and painless’ death, and one preceded by extra sufferings reserved for the insubordinate. — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 95

Categorization

• XREF: The bathroom deception exemplifies manufactured false consciousness, connecting to later readings on ideological mystification. — connects to: Victims’ rational survival choices can become tools of their own destruction — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 349; Exploiting victim rationality was cheaper than controlling them through fear — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 581; Victims’ rational conduct was engineered to serve their own destruction — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 95 (+1 more)

Related

• Exploiting victim rationality was cheaper than controlling them through fear (similarity 0.86)
• Nazi power operated by crafting a rational make-believe world for victims (similarity 0.84)
• Victims’ rational survival choices can become tools of their own destruction (similarity 0.82)
• The Holocaust succeeded partly through victims’ rational actions. (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• Victims’ rational survival choices can become tools of their own destruction #expands (0.90) — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 349
• Victims’ rational conduct was engineered to serve their own destruction #expands (0.90) — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 95
• Exploiting victim rationality was cheaper than controlling them through fear #expands (0.75) — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 581