The generic speech given by SS militiamen to camp prisoners as recounted in Simon Wiesenthal's The Murderers Are Among Us:
However this war may end, we have won the war against you; none of you will be left to bear witness, but even if someone were to survive, the world would not believe him. There will perhaps be suspcions, discussions, research by historians, but there will be no certainties, because we will destroy the evidence together with you. And even if some proff should remain and some of you survive, people will say that the events you describe are too monstrous to be believed: they will say that there are exaggerations of Allied propoganda and will believe us, who will deny everything, and not you. We will be the ones to dictate the history of the Camps.
It is difficult to imagine German troops acknowledging the monstrosity of their own deeds and at the same planning to destroy all evidence out of some sense of shame. What were they thinking they could "get away with"? And why? Was it some kind of drunken sense of power that defied the taboo of murder and brutality? What was the real nature of their "program" that it focussed such effort and resources. It seems the real war was not against the Allies but against the Jews, Gypsies, the disabled — all those who could not contribute to the glorious future of the German race [as the Chosen People?]
