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152 FASCISM: THE BLOODY IDEOLOGY OF DARWINISM

Himmler saw non-Aryan peoples, and peoples such as Slavs and Jews
in particular, as animals, and considered it perfectly natural to perpetrate all
kinds of cruelty against them. He had this to say about female Russian
prisoners in a speech he made on 4 October 1943 to the SS Group Leaders in
Poznan:

Whether the other peoples live in comfort or perish of hunger interests
me only in so far as we need them as slaves for our Kultur. Whether or
not 10,000 Russian women collapse from exhaustion while digging a
tank ditch interests one only in so far as the tank ditch is completed for
Germany. 99
Himmler would even denigrate those in occupied countries who had
wanted to fight on the side of Germany:

I very soon formed a German SS in the various countries. We very soon
got Germanic volunteers from them. From the beginning, I have said to
them, "You can do what you like and leave what you like. I leave
everything entirely to you, but you may be sure, that an SS will be set
up in your country, and there is but one SS in Europe, and that is the

Mussolini
often used
Darwinist
language in
his speeches,
and believed
that peace
was harmful
to mankind,
who could
only advance
with the use
of violence.