As for the whole race-extermination side of the argument, it boils down to lawmakers taking extremist anti-abortion cant at face value.
Since Jews were held responsible for the ideas that had supposedly suppressed the stronger races, only their extermination could ensure victory.
The movie it's from is "Jew Süss Film Without Conscience," directed by Oskar Roehler, and it seems to be intended as (in Kilb's description) "a new and revealing depiction of the conditions that led to the making of 'Jew Süss' and its use as an instrument of race-hatred and mass extermination".
By June 13, the threat became official: "Nazis Blame Jews/For Big Bombings" read a headline on Page 7. The accompanying article quoted Joseph Goebbels as vowing that the Jews would pay for German suffering "with the extermination of their race in all Europe and perhaps even beyond Europe".
Because American thinkers created the idea of eugenics -- the extermination of lesser races to make room for greater ones -- that the Nazi's came to embrace.
"The judge said at first that the accusation against me was for 'the extermination of the human race,' " he said.
Klaatu's job is to assist, calmly and methodically, in the extermination of the human race, a task he tries, with evident fatigue, to explain to his hysterical, violent would-be victims.
And both raise complex questions about the nature of humanity – that we have within us the capability to organise over several years the systematic extermination of a whole race of people, and also the obliteration of a large populated city in the blink of an eye.
M. Politis, Minister for Foreign Affairs, today laid before the Chamber four new documents proving conclusively that the persecutions of which the Greeks at Aivali and in other parts of Asia Minor were the victims were carried out in accordance with a plan for the extermination of the Greek race in Turkey devised by the German General Staff, which aided and supervised its execution.
The Nazis are, somehow, back; spottier this time, and more pitiable, and more likely to crank off to cartoons all day, but no less dedicated to the extermination of the impure races.
