Nazi mass murder policy deliberately disregarded economic and military utility.

Evidence

This hope of Hans Frank, Governor General of Poland, was as little fulfilled as his later expectations of a militarily more sensible policy toward Poles and Ukrainians. His complaints are interesting (see his Diary in Nazi Conspiracy, IV, 902 ff.) because he is frightened exclusively by the anti-utilitarian aspect of Nazi policies during the war. “Once we have won the war, then for all I care, mince-meat can be made of the Poles and the Ukrainians and all the others who run around here…” — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 2759

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to Arendt’s broader argument about totalitarianism’s anti-utilitarian logic, and to later readings on the ‘instrumentalization of everything’ and bureaucratic rationality — the very norm of efficiency that totalitarian terror suspends.