"I try once again to follow a logic that isn't mine. For an orthodox Nazi it must have been obvious, definitive, clear that all Jews must be killed: that was a dogma, a postulate. The children also, of course and especially pregnant women, so that no future enemies should be born. But why, during the furious round-ups in all the cities and villages of their boundless empire, violate the houses of the dying? Why go to the trouble of dragging them on to their trains, take them to die far away, after a senseless journey, die in Poland on the threshold of the gas chambers? In my convoy there were two dying ninety-year-old women, taken out of the Fossoli infirmary: one of them died en route, nursed in vain by her daughters. Would it not have been simpler, more 'economical,' to let them die, or perhaps kill them in their beds, instead of adding their agony to the collective agony of the transport? One is truly led to think that, in the Third Reich, the best choice, the choice imposed from above, was the one that entailed the greatest amount of affliction, the greatest amount of waste, of physical and moral suffering. The 'enemy' must not only die, but must die in torment." Primo Levi