“This use of animal terms to vilify and dehumanize the victims, combined with the abominably degraded conditions in the camps, made it easier for the SS to do their job, since treating prisoners like animals made them begin to look and smell like animals.”

—  Charles Patterson (author)

Source: Eternal Treblinka (2002), p. 47

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