Auschwitz had no such romantic interludes. It was not the will to live, nor a conscious resignation; for few are the men capable of such resolution, and we were but a common sample of humanity. Obviously the Nazis thought that Jews, whether German, Polish, Russian, or Italian, were not human. It was the Jew, for the most part, that the Nazis saw as the cause of serious economic problems post World War I. Scapegoats were needed to unite the German spirit. Hitler ...