as a “machinery of destruction”, and it was.The euthanasia program is another example of Hitler’s plan. The euthanasia, or the mercy killings, was to kill the mentally or terminally ill. Hitler went into great detail of who was useful and who was disposable. He intended to create a perfect race. He was willing to kill those he judged as unworthy of life. The mercy killings were justified as necessary to cleanse Germany of the impure. He wanted to fill the country with a supreme and master race. Hitler believed the Jews to be the bottom of the barrel. If he were willing to kill non-Jews then why would he think twice about murdering those even lower than that?There are millions of explanations for the events occurring before and after World War II. The question is no longer why, but how? How did the world’s greatest tragedy come about? Maybe it is better not to know. Maybe it is safer to believe that the Shoah was simply the act of a madman because the thought that it could happen purely out of circumstance is too scary. To think that humanity is still capable of such an atrocity today is repulsive. But we will never really know how the Holocaust happened. The lack of documentation will leave the how an open ended question. Most of the Nazi archives were destroyed and what is left is masked in illusive language and innuendoes. It is quite possible that even Hitler himself did not know how the Shoah came about. He may have never even been involved with the planning of mass murder. Then again he could have been the mastermind behind it all. Even if he was, how did he get so many ordinary people to carry out such a horrendous duty? There are so many questions and so few answers. After all the reading and research I have done, I find myself more confused now then I was in the beginning. I think in the end, no one is right and no one is wrong because trying to read the human mind will lead to a de...
