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Hitler and the other Nazi leaders experienced no guilt over
the savagery they inflicted for so many years, and even regarded
themselves as heroes. They thought of themselves as saviors who
would bring about the evolution of humanity, to whom later
evolved generations would feel grateful. That, however, was a lie.
The dangerous ideas that resulted from Hitler's sick mentality
were broadened and put into practice under the influence of Social
Darwinism. According to his ideology, concentration camps were
not prisons where innocents were tortured and exterminated, but
rather places of quarantine where sickly, weak and undesirable ele-
Three Yugoslavs, whom the German occupying
forces killed and put on public display in 1940.