Primo Levi believed that, “Conceiving and organizing the squads was National Socialism’s most demonic crime” (53). The most horrifying part of the Holocaust was the fact that the Nazis forced their prisoners to join in on the crimes they were committing. The Special Squads (SS) were responsible for most of the crimes against humanity, and the worst ones. The SS was made up of German, Polish and Russian prisoners, but the most demonic aspect of the squads was that the Jewish were a large part of them too. It’s one thing to mass murder an entire race, but it’s another thing when you make that race kill their own people and then kill them too. I suppose that the Nazis thought that if they were going to hell, they might as well make their prisoners go with them. Levi stated that, “…it must be the Jews who put the Jews into the ovens; it must be shown that the Jews, the subrace, the submen, bow to any and all humiliation, even to destroying themselves” (52). It was known that by doing the work the Jews were forced to do, one either went crazy the first day or got accustomed to it. I don’t know how anyone could get used to committing such awful crimes, but that just adds to the horrors of the concentration camps and what went on there.