Feb. 8th, 2018
"The official SS newspaper, the Schwarze Korps, stated explicitly in 1938 that if the world was not yet convinced that the Jews were the scum of the earth, it soon would be when unidentifiable beggars, without nationality, without money, and without passports crossed their frontiers. And it is true that this kind of factual propaganda worked better than Goebbels' rhetoric... because the incredible plight of an ever-growing group of innocent people was like a practical demonstration of the totalitarian movements' cynical claim that no such thing as inalienable human rights existed and that the affirmations of the democracies to the contrary were mere prejudice, hypocrisy, and cowardice... The very phrase 'human rights' became for all concerned... the evidence of hopeless idealism or fumbling feeble-minded hypocrisy." - Hannah Arendt in The Origins of Totalitarianism, p 269.