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    p eople were beaten from the time they got up in the morning until they

    crawled into a lice-ridden bunk at night, deliberately underfed until

    they'd worked themselves to death.  Bertha was not even concerned

    that her family maintained gas ovens on the factory grounds to

    eliminate those forced laborers who might prove recalcitrant.  In her

    own eyes, Bertha Krupp was a good and charitable person. Her

    kindness extended to those she considered human.

    The Slavs and Jews from whose bones she ground her fortune,

    on the other hand, were of a distinctly different subspecies.  Bertha and

    other Germans of the time referred to these subservient beings with

    one simple word: "Stucke"--"livestock."13

    As Margaret Mead said, killing real people is forbidden.  But

    folks beyond the boundaries of our own superorganism aren't really

    people, are they.

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