Electoral politics doesn't get the job done

Ministerialdirektor Friedrich Wilhelm Kritzinger of the Reich Chancellery: Who were those 30,000 [Jews] you say you shot, when you say, you shot?
\ SS-Sturmbannführer Dr Rudolf Lange, Commander of the Sicherheitsdienst in Latvia: In Riga, Latvia. 27,800 I have some responsibility for. And stood by with my men and allowed Latvian civilians to kill in mobs. I received memos directing the -- one would say evacuation of Jews -- who, shot and buried in soil and corpses, managed to crawl out, still alive. Not exactly war, is it? And gas chambers about to come?
\ Kritzinger: What gas chambers? Gas chambers?
\ Lange: I hear rumors, yes.
\ Kritzinger: This is more than war. Must be a different word for this.
\ Lange: Try chaos.
\ Kritzinger: Yes. The rest is argument, the curse of my profession.
\ Lange: I studied law as well.
\ Kritzinger: And how do you apply that education to what you do?
\ Lange: It has made me distrustful of language. A gun means what it says.

-- Conspiracy 2001, based on the captured minutes of the Wannsee Conference