# Death Dealer ![rw-book-cover](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/41Jfo-5ljZL._SY160.jpg) ## Metadata - Author: [[Rudolf Höss, Steven Paskuly, Primo Levi, and Andrew Pollinger]] - Full Title: Death Dealer - Category: #books ## Highlights - As long as we have hatred in our hearts for any fellow human, this hate could be fanned into the flames of another holocaust. ([Location 204](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B00200LGK6&location=204)) - The highest total figure of people gassed and cremated in twenty-four hours was slightly more than nine thousand. This figure was reached in the summer of 1944, during the action in Hungary,27 using all the installations except Crematory [IV]. ([Location 386](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B00200LGK6&location=386)) - Professor G. M. Gilbert states in his book Nuremburg Diary that the perceptual bias used by any prejudiced group looks for only those traits that confirm the prejudice or stereotype, while those that contradict it are ignored, and not associated with that group. ([Location 2621](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B00200LGK6&location=2621)) - Hoss's inability to assess his own action indicates the course that he would follow and explain how he could order and watch the millions of murders in Auschwitz. He had abandoned traditional morality for ideological morality. ([Location 2665](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B00200LGK6&location=2665)) - "It is the True Believer's ability to shut his eyes and stop his ears to facts that do not deserve to be seen or heard which is the source of his unequaled fortitude and constancy," states Hoffer. ([Location 2674](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B00200LGK6&location=2674)) - As a true believer he embraced the ideology expressed in what Joachim Fest calls the most horrifying testament in the German language. It is Himmler's speech to the SS group leaders on October 4, 1943.Most of you know what it means to see a hundred corpses lying together, five hundred, or a thousand. To have gone through this and yet-apart from a few exceptions, examples of human weakness-to have remained decent, this has made us hard. This is a glorious page in our history that has never been written and never shall be written. ([Location 2719](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B00200LGK6&location=2719))