Hitler conceived of individuals as expendable for species survival

Evidence

In the Tischgespräche, Hitler mentions several times that he “[strives] for a condition in which each individual knows that he lives and dies for the preservation of his species” (p. 349). See also p. 347: “A fly lays millions of eggs, all of which perish. But the flies remain.” — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 2813

Categorization

• XREF: Direct evidence of totalitarian biopolitics — subordinating individual life to the abstract species — echoing the biopolitics/necropolitics vocabulary in the reader’s module.
• ADDENDUM: Connects to ‘On Sacrifice: The Real Kind, with Corpses’: the species-survival logic reframes individual death as mere biological cost.