Imposed scarcity atomized ghetto society into a war of all against all.

Evidence

The threat of collective death was not anticipated because the social organization of political economy of the ghetto created differential death chances every day. The chance of each to survive depended on his or her place in the class order, and the whole class order arose from imposed scarcity and political terror, rewarding those most able to serve the Nazis directly or indirectly … The system of controls also obscured recognition of a common enemy, by displacing anger against the conquerors onto the Judenrat and perpetuating the belief that it was a war of all against all rather than that of them against us. — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 379

Categorization

• XREF: ‘War of all against all’ echoes Hobbes and the social-contract framing the reader may want for the scaffolding; also connects to how divide-and-rule operates in colonial/racial governance.