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There is a difference. If you kill to take money or rob, it is plain murder, but if you kill because of political reasons, that is a political murder.

— Rudolf Höss

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Not justified - but Himmler told me that if the Jews were not exterminated at that time, then the German people would be exterminated for all time by the Jews.

You become hard when you carry out such orders.

My conscience compels me to make the following declaration. In the solitude of my prison cell I have come to the bitter recognition that I have sinned gravely against humanity.

We cut the hair from women after they had been exterminated in the gas chambers. The hair was then sent to factories, when it was woven into special fittings for gaskets.

Believe me, it wasn’t always a pleasure to see those mountains of corpses and smell the perpetual burning.

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