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p eople were beaten from the time they got up in the morning until they
crawled into a lice-ridden bunk at night, deliberately underfed until
they'd worked themselves to death.  Bertha was not even concerned
that her family maintained gas ovens on the factory grounds to
eliminate those forced laborers who might prove recalcitrant.  In her
own eyes, Bertha Krupp was a good and charitable person. Her
kindness extended to those she considered human.
The Slavs and Jews from whose bones she ground her fortune,
on the other hand, were of a distinctly different subspecies.  Bertha and
other Germans of the time referred to these subservient beings with
one simple word: "Stucke"--"livestock."13
As Margaret Mead said, killing real people is forbidden.  But
folks beyond the boundaries of our own superorganism aren't really
people, are they.
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