Scott Atran states that human beings kill in the name of "transcendent ideals." Islamic suicide bombers kill (and die), Atran says, in order to prove the depth of their devotion to their sacred values, claiming their actions are a "sublime matter of moral virtue."

This hypothesis applies precisely to the mass-murder of the Jewish people by the Nazis (the Final Solution or Holocaust). Heinrich Himmler stated in his speech at Posen, October 1943 that Germany had "the moral right, we had the duty to our people, to kill these people who wanted to kill us."

He goes on to say that Germans are carrying out this "most difficult task" out of "love for our own people."
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Heinrich Himmler’s speech at Posen, delivered to SS officers and NSDAP officials in October 1943, in which he spoke of the extermination of the Jewish people.

Complete text here:: https://alphahistory.com/holocaust/himmlers-speech-at-posen-1943/