... against the background of a war (the killing of the Armenians and of the Jews), but none of them was necessaryto ¤ghting the war, none was occasioned by military necessity. The motives for the murders ... law.14 The judg-ment, then, was the law’s, not his. In the same spirit he wrote of other Ger-mans—those who were not at Józefów but who may have in their hearts approved the deeds—that the moral ... dehumanize them; to hate to the point of desiring extermi-nation of the hated humans is to commit murder in the heart. The offense,invisible to others, is seen by the invisible giver of the law,...