That quote is paraphrased, I don't remember exactly what was said. But basically the movie is set at the Wannsee Conference in 1942 where the SS are discussing how to implement the Holocaust. The head of the SS is using words like "evactuation/relocation" and finally one of the lower-ranked field officers has had enough. He interjects with a pointed comment about how it certainly didn't look like "relocation" when he had to force Jewish civilians into ditches and shoot them.
Assuming the movie is historically accurate, was there a lot of underlying friction between Nazi leaders (who presumably didn't get their hands dirty) and the people who had to actually perform the dirty work?
I believe this is the relevant dialogue from the film, but I don't think it's very relevant to your question.
Lange: I have the real feeling I "evacuated" 30,000 Jews already, by shooting them, at Riga. Is what I did "evacuation"? When they fell, were they "evacuated"? There are another 20,000, at least, waiting for similar "evacuation". - I just think it is helpful to know what words mean... with all respect.
[Kritzinger bangs the table in applause]
Adolf Eichmann: If I might, I think it's unnecessary to burden the record...
Heydrich: Yes! In my personal opinion, they are evacuated.
Kritzinger: Explain!
Heydrich: I have just done so.
Kritzinger: That is not - no, that is contrary to what the Chancellery has been told. I have directly been assured - I have - that - purge the Jews, yes, but to annihilate them - that we have undertaken to systematically annihilate all the Jews of Europe - that possibility has personally been denied, to me, by the Führer!
Heydrich: And it will continue to be.
If you're interested in a very detailed and harrowing account of the struggles some soldiers faced when they were asked to execute prisoners of war in cold blood, I'd suggest the book "Death in Rome", by Robert Katz. Robert Katz is not exactly a hardcore academic so take what he says with the grain of salt.
The book follows the tragic events of the Ardeatine Massacre in 1944. 335 Italian prisoners were sentenced to death for the Communist resistance bombing of an SS patrol, at a 10:1 ratio. Many of these soldiers were first time executioners and had to be given copious amounts of alcohol to gain the will to kill the civilian prisoners. It has been years since I've used the book for academic purposes, but I believe at one point Katz explains how the SS officers helped the soldiers pull the triggers because the would be executioners couldn't force themselves to kill the innocent Italians. So, yes, many soldiers who were forced to carry out brutal executions from the Nazi bureaucracy heavily resented and railed against the senseless violence.
I'll try to concisely explain the Wannsee Conference as well as your question, but please note that I'm still an undergraduate so I will defer if someone more knowledgeable in this field comments.
Starting off, a little background into the situation the Nazi German leadership was facing in regards to the Jews. in 1939, Germany invades Poland - splitting it between Germany and the Soviet Union as per the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact. A part of German-occupied Poland was annexed an incorporated into Germany-proper while the rest was consolidated into the General Government. In regards to the Jews, it was 'open season' - the German authorities encouraged and also participated in the massacre of Jews. In the incorporated territories, the Jews were forced to relocated inside the ghettos of the General Government: Warsaw, Lublin, Lodz etc. In 1941, the Germans began Operation Barbarossa - the invasion of the Soviet Union, sparking another wave of violence against the Jews. This time, the Germans encouraged locals to attack Jews along with the Germans' own activities of massacring Jews (Babi Yar) - some locals even took matters into their own hands and attacked and killed Jews in their villages or towns on their own initiative.
Onto the Wannsee Conference. It's important to note that by the end of 1941, the Nazi leadership realized that the mass shootings of Jews was not efficient. They were concerned with the mental health of the perpetrators whom were carrying out these atrocities daily. The Wannsee Conference was hosted by Reinhard Heydrich, a high-ranking SS officer along with members from other departments to find a more efficient answer to the Jewish Question. They wanted something quicker and better than simply mass shootings. Another thing to note is that these were 'mid-ranking' officials. They were not the Hitler, Goebbels, or Goring; they were not the planners but the implementer of their leaders wishes. Now onto your question. Were their rivalries between SS bureaucrats and soldiers? Absolutely! Not even just within the SS but between the SS and the Wehrmacht, the Foreign Office, the General Government. The atmosphere of the Nazi hierarchy promoted this conflict - many sought to improve their position by impressing their leaders. Hence, in the Wannsee Conference, the main issue was of course the solution to the Jewish Question, but underlying this was the need to assert SS leadership towards the elimination of the Jews.
To the other question regarding the use of euphemisms. I believe it was a means of covering their tracks. Hence the German usage of euthanasia to cover-up the killing of disabled and 'asocial' people. Everyone at Wannsee knew what 'evacuation' meant, but in order to 'reduce the burden' they kept these euphemisms. It should be said that once the Germans were successful in winning the war, all these records would be kept under heavy lock or even destroyed. In the event that future historians in this victorious Nazi world accessed these documents, they would not reveal the truth behind the founding of the 'Thousand Year Reich', but only vague answers.
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