(November 9, 2015 at 3:00 pm)Minimalist Wrote:(November 9, 2015 at 2:55 pm)abaris Wrote: Exactly, and I rather not live in a world where Himmler's word ever becomes a reasonable strategy.
Actually, I don't think you can give Himmler the credit for that "strategy." It is much, much, older.
Quote: 1Sa 15:3
Now go and smite Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and spare them not; but slay both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and ass.
Himmler is probably the first one to think he could kill all the Jews so there there will be no one left to accuse him. His predecessors simply though they could kill the Jews within their reach, and Jews elsewhere would be too powerless to accuse them in any harmful way.
