Rudolf Herbert thought the crucial element in the Nazi killing machine a crucial component was deception. He wanted to break that wall of ignorance that meant Jews were arriving on those trains with no idea of their fate and he just thought somebody has to get out of here and tell the Jews what is waiting for them at the end of those railway tracks. And so he made which was we're going to give you a shower, we'll give you food, just get in, we're just moving you. So they've called pots and pans and clothes and children's books and children's toys because they thought they were going to have new lives. That made a huge difference in terms of how they behaved

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