“We shall never be rough or heartless where it is not necessary; that is clear. We Germans, who are the only people in the world who have a decent attitude to animals, will also adopt a decent attitude to these human animals.”
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Audio Excerpts from the speech given by Heinrich Himmler to SS Group Leaders in Posen, occupied Poland October 4, 1943
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