Extermination enabled the Nazis to deploy apparently sympathetic clichés about their victims

Evidence

Thus Hitler could afford to use the favorite cliché “decent Jew” once he had begun to exterminate them, namely, in December, 1941, in the Tischgespräche, p. 346. — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 2767

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: The term extermination reflects killers’ belief victims are not fully human — Gregory H. Stanton, Ten Stages of Genocide, 16