Koenigsberg's Lecture at California State University (excerpt)

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"THE PRODUCTION OF DEATH"

"Steven T. Katz asks: “Has there ever been an example of so much disciplined planning and modern technological know-how harnessed and used solely to murder a noncombatant civilian population; where a technology came into being and had its sole raison d’être the murder of a segment of one's own population?”

"An entire, sophisticated industry, Katz explains, and much of the energy of the German nation, was devoted solely to the “production of corpses.”  The making of trains to carry victims, gas chambers to gas the victims, ovens to burn them, was the product of a technologically advanced civilization that “turned its economy and inmost soul over to manufacturing death.” But why did such a bizarre institution come into being?  What were the Nazis trying to accomplish?"