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What does it mean?
Requests only numerical figures on deported and remaining Jews in security reports.
In plain terms
He wants numbers on Jews shipped out and those left behind.
What can you take from it?
Bureaucratic language can mask atrocities.

Where it applies

  • administrative tasks
  • historical records
  • war crimes

Putting it to work

  • analyzing bureaucratic language
  • studying war records

Questions to consider

  • How does bureaucracy hide harm?
  • What do numbers hide?

Another view

Reduces human lives to statistics.

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