To support the singularity of Auschwitz, the administrative and mechanical form in which mass murders were carried out are cited. The image of the bureaucratic executioner who pursues his annihilation with stamps and files, continues to shock us today. Included is a letter by Karl Dietrich Bracher to the editor of the 'Frankfurter Allgemeiner Zeitung', Sept. 6, 1986, discussing the comparability of the Nationalist-Socialist and Communist policy of mass murder