Read the following excerpt from an official letter written during the nineteenth century.

we find that your country is distant from us about sixty or seventy thousand miles, that your foreign ships come hither striving the one with the other for our trade, and for the simple reason of their strong desire to reap a profit…it follows, that the immense wealth which the said foreigners amass, ought properly speaking to be portion of our own native chinese people. by what principle of reason then, should these foreigners send in return a poisonous drug, which involves in destruction those very natives of china?

which event in chinese history prompted these words?

the ss was the main organization responsible for the genocidal murder of around six million people of european ethnic minorities, essentially jews, in the holocaust. the members of all its branches committed war crimes and crimes against humanity during the second world war (1939-1945). likewise, the ss were involved in commercial enterprises and exploited the inmates of the concentration camps as slave laborers.

the tortures and assassinations committed by the ss were the result of an ideology developed long before the armed conflict, this ideology was based on the racial supremacy of the germans over the rest.

a.

congress passed laws allowing for free passage between states.