Nazi war slaughter was a planned opportunity for a millennial murder program
Evidence
Hitler was not forced by the war to throw all ethical considerations overboard, but regarded the mass slaughter of war as an incomparable opportunity to start a murder program which, like all other points of his program, was calculated in terms of millennia. — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 815
Categorization
- XREF: Evidence for the totalitarian indifference-to-interest thesis; relevant to biopolitics/necropolitics scaffolding in the subsequent Islamophobia readings.