In reality the system appealed to destructive instincts, to sadism, to the castration complex in choosing a few thousand brutes ready to do anything. It’s not difficult to find one hundred thousand out of sixty-five million inhabitants, and these hundred thousand are largely sufficient for all tasks. In addition, the totalitarian machinery (inconceivable for anyone who has not experienced it) offers the average man—neither good nor bad, more or less sociable, more or less molded by one or two thousand years of civilization—no choice. Sent to Poland in uniform, posted not far from an
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