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Book: Masters of Death: The SS-Einsatzgruppen and the Invention of the Holocaust
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  1. Richard Rhodes _ Masters of Death: The

    The idea of treating war as anything other than the harshest means of settling questions of very existence is ridiculous," he challenged the army commanders. "Every war costs blood, and the smell of blood arouses in man all the instincts which have lain within us since the beginning of the world: deeds of violence, the intoxication of murder, and many other things. Everything else is empty babble. A humane war exists only in bloodless brains." A field marshal who attended the conference reported Hitler warning them "that he would proceed against the Poles after the end of the campaign with relentless vigor. Things would happen which would not be to the taste of the German generals.
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  2. Richard Rhodes _ Masters of Death: The

    Violence is an instrumentality, not a psychopathology or a character disorder. Violence is a means to an end-domination and control-one of many possible means. Since its essence is injury, its efficacy in the long term is marginal, but its short-term advantages are obvious.
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  3. Richard Rhodes _ Masters of Death: The

    Protocols of the Elders of Zion, supposedly a transcription of a secret Jewish council's plans to subvert legitimate governments and take over the world, were sold internationally in the 1920s and 1930s; Henry Ford took the forgery as literally as Adolf Hitler did.
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  4. Richard Rhodes _ Masters of Death: The

    Anti-Semitism had a long history in the West and pervaded European society."
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