With the introduction of a real virus into society, the absurdity or bizarreness of political "history" becomes evidence. On February 22, 1942, a eight months after the "Final Solution" had been set in motion, Hitler declared:

"The discovery of the Jewish virus is one of the greatest revolutions that has taken place in the world. The battle in which we are engaged today is of the same sort as the battle waged by Pasteur and Koch. How many diseases have their origin in the Jewish virus! We shall regain our health only by eliminating the Jew."

The basis of the Holocaust was the belief that Jews constituted a "virus" that needed to be eliminated from within the German body politic. The Final Solution enacted the fantasy that Germany possessed an immune system. 

This was the basis of the extraordinary event, the Final Solution or Holocaust: a fantasy--a shared psychotic fantasy--played out on the stage of social reality,

March 24, 1882: Robert Koch announced the Discovery of the Tubercle Bacillus—the cause of tuberculosis—to the Berlin Physiological Society.

Writing on the history of German medicine, Paul Weindling (1993) describes how bacteriologists became aligned with the state—through the use of military analogies. Koch described how "alien parasites" entered the body. Laboratory researchers were compared to soldiers: "Warrior against disease."

There was widespread adulation of Koch. Thousands of handkerchiefs on which his face was embroidered were sold. Just as the bacterium causing tuberculosis had been isolated, so it was hoped that the germs of mental illness, criminality and feeble-mindedness could also be located.