--- title: "Meaning & Key Takeaway of: These monsters have industrialized…" description: "\"“These monsters have industrialized murder. Sometimes as many as ten thousand people are murdered in Auschwitz in a single day, people from all across ..." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6a2/lee-vidor-98664_holocaust_these-monsters-have-industrialized-murde_2381784.jpg" --- # These monsters have industrialized murder. Sometimes as… ![“These monsters have industrialized murder. Sometimes as many as ten thousand people are murdered in Auschwitz in a single day, people from all across Europe, adding up to millions upon millions of Jews and homosexuals and communists and political dissenters and Slavs and gypsies and artists. Six…” quote by Lee Vidor](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6a2/lee-vidor-98664_holocaust_these-monsters-have-industrialized-murde_2381784.jpg) [Download](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6a2/lee-vidor-98664_holocaust_these-monsters-have-industrialized-murde_2381784.jpg) [Open image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6a2/lee-vidor-98664_holocaust_these-monsters-have-industrialized-murde_2381784.jpg) > ““These monsters have industrialized murder. Sometimes as many as ten thousand people are murdered in Auschwitz in a single day, people from all across Europe, adding up to millions upon millions of Jews and homosexuals and communists and political dissenters and Slavs and gypsies and artists. Six million Jews exterminated. Two out of every three in all of Europe. The Nazis want to exterminate everyone who is not like them. In their eyes not to be like them is an unforgivable crime. It is a narcissism gone insane. The narcissism of the psychopath.”” [Lee Vidor](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lee-vidor/) ## About This Quote This interpretation was drafted with AI assistance. It is one reading of the quote, not the author's own explanation. A stark condemnation of the Holocaust’s industrialized genocide, highlighting extreme hatred and the perverse narcissism of the perpetrators. **In simple terms:** Condemns industrialized genocide and hatred. Key Takeaway Recognize and confront hatred and dehumanization. Themes genocide hatred history human rights memory Mood somber urgent Type historical ethical When to use this quote - education curricula - human rights advocacy - memorial sites Key Concepts industrial murder narcissistic evil political oppression Questions to Reflect On - How can societies prevent such atrocities? - What drives extremist hatred? ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ No ratings yet [Europe Nazis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/europe-nazis-5901361/) [Exterminated Europe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/exterminated-europe-5901360/) [Holocaust](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/holocaust/) [Israel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/israel/) [Jews Exterminated](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/jews-exterminated-2361619/) [Judaism](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/judaism/) [Murdered Auschwitz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/murdered-auschwitz-2198732/) [Nazis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/nazis/) [Nazis Want](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/nazis-want-2745808/) [Wwii](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/wwii/) ## Related quotes > [When your party is controlled by a billionaire rootless international financier who expresses 'no sense of guilt' for collaborating with the Nazis, you might…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ann-coulter/when-your-party-is-controlled-by-a-billionaire-rootless-international/) [Ann Coulter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ann-coulter/) > [“In February, 1943, eight months before she was murdered in Auschwitz, the German painter Charlotte Salomon killed her grandfather. 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