Can This Be Real?

While reading this book, I often forget that the book is also a war book. What I mean is that when one thinks of a war movie or book, they tend to think of all the action in the war and the bloody battles. Valkyrie was the first movie that I saw about a war, that wasn't really about the action in the war. It's a movie about a plan made to attempt to kill Hitler. This book also reminded me of that because it's not only about the battles. One part of the chapter that called my attention was "...use of burning jellied gasoline on human beings. It was dropped on them from airplanes. Robots did the dropping. They had no conscience, and no circuits which would allow them to imagine what was happening to the people on the ground." (PDF File) This line really shocked me. It made me stop reading for a minute, and analyze what I had just read. How can humans treat each other like they do. This is a question that I really think about a lot. I can never understand how events such as the Holocaust happened. Although I would love to have the answer, I know that it's impossible to know. Is it for power and land, or to exterminate another race? Or is it both? How can they go to sleep knowing they're killing thousands a day? I guess one day it'll all make sense.