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Hitler depended upon Himmler's loyalty up to nearly the end when it was discovered Himmler was negotiating with the Western Powers. <ref>  [https://www.cia.gov/library/center-for-the-study-of-intelligence/csi-publications/csi-studies/studies/vol46no1/article04.html Reichsführer Himmler Pitches Washington] Sweden, John H. Waller, Studies in Intelligence, CSI Publications, Unclassified Studies Volume 46, Number 1, 2002.</ref>  [[Friedrich Hayek]], an Austrian economist, in a chapter entitled "Why the worst get on top" of his contemporaneous ''Road to Serfdom'' observed "Advancement within a [[totalitarian]] group or party depends largely on a willingness to do immoral things. The principle that the end justifies the means, which in individualist ethics is regarded as the denial of all morals, in [[collectivist]] ethics becomes necessarily the supreme rule. There is literally nothing which the consistent collectivist must not be prepared to do if it serves ‘the good of the whole’, because that is to him the only criterion of what ought to be done." <ref>Friedrich A. Hayek, ''Road to Serfdom'', [http://www.iea.org.uk/files/upld-publication43pdf?.pdf  Why the worst get on top], pg. 43 - 49, Reader's Digest Condensed Version, April 1945.</ref> Himmler displayed the brutal nature of this collectivist mentality taken to its logical extreme wherein he explained,
 
Hitler depended upon Himmler's loyalty up to nearly the end when it was discovered Himmler was negotiating with the Western Powers. <ref>  [https://www.cia.gov/library/center-for-the-study-of-intelligence/csi-publications/csi-studies/studies/vol46no1/article04.html Reichsführer Himmler Pitches Washington] Sweden, John H. Waller, Studies in Intelligence, CSI Publications, Unclassified Studies Volume 46, Number 1, 2002.</ref>  [[Friedrich Hayek]], an Austrian economist, in a chapter entitled "Why the worst get on top" of his contemporaneous ''Road to Serfdom'' observed "Advancement within a [[totalitarian]] group or party depends largely on a willingness to do immoral things. The principle that the end justifies the means, which in individualist ethics is regarded as the denial of all morals, in [[collectivist]] ethics becomes necessarily the supreme rule. There is literally nothing which the consistent collectivist must not be prepared to do if it serves ‘the good of the whole’, because that is to him the only criterion of what ought to be done." <ref>Friedrich A. Hayek, ''Road to Serfdom'', [http://www.iea.org.uk/files/upld-publication43pdf?.pdf  Why the worst get on top], pg. 43 - 49, Reader's Digest Condensed Version, April 1945.</ref> Himmler displayed the brutal nature of this collectivist mentality taken to its logical extreme wherein he explained,
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{{Cquote|Whether 10,000 Russian females fall down from exhaustion while digging an anti-tank ditch interest me only in so far as the anti-tank ditch for Germany is finished. <ref>[http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/himmler_remarks.html Reichsführer-SS Himmler speaking to SS Major-Generals, Poznan, October 4, 1943], Nazi Conspiracy and Aggression- Washington, U.S Govt. Print. Off., 1946, Vol. IV, p. 559. Retrieved from the jewishvirtuallibrary.org 06/16/07.</ref>}}
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{{Cquote|Whether 10,000 Russian females fall down from exhaustion while digging an anti-tank ditch or not interests me only in so far as the anti-tank ditch for Germany is finished. <ref>[http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/himmler_remarks.html Reichsführer-SS Himmler speaking to SS Major-Generals, Poznan, October 4, 1943], Nazi Conspiracy and Aggression- Washington, U.S Govt. Print. Off., 1946, Vol. IV, p. 559. Retrieved from the jewishvirtuallibrary.org 06/16/07.</ref>}}
 
      
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