There was a common saying in Germany just before the Nazi reign. “The human body contains a sufficient amount of fat to make seven cakes of soap, enough iron to make a medium-sized nail, a sufficient amount of phosphorous for two thousand match-heads, enough sulfur to rid one person of fleas.”

The Nazi view of humanity reduced us to nothing more than the usefulness of our physical components and when that was used up it was fine to cast aside the human being.

from Radical Hospitality: Benedict’s Way of Love (Lonnie Collins Pratt, author)