You Wouldn't Make A Dog Suffer Like This

[Pat Mustard]

You know what this reminds me of?

There's a movie called Conspiracy. It's about the Wannsee Conference, that chapter of Nazi Germany where the Nazis finally made up their mind between killing the Jews and simply making their lives Hell after nine years in power.

One quibble, the Nazis had decided to kill off the Jews a long time before. Death squads to carry out that purpose had been formed in preparation for the invasion of Poland and, later, the USSR (the einsatzgruppen of the SS). But it turned out that killing thousands of people via firing squad was not alone massively wasteful of bullets but severy deleterious to the mental and physical health of the killers. So they combined the idea of gassing people used in the life unworthy of life programme (using the same vans at the beginning) with the accidental discovery that Zyklon B was a very effective poison against humans.

At least 1m Jews were killed before Wannsee.