"The [fascist concentration and extermination] camps are meant not only to exterminate and degrade human beings, but also serve the ghastly experiment of eliminating, under scientifically controlled conditions, spontaneity itself as an expression of human behavior and of transforming the human personality into a mere thing, into something that even animals are not; for Pavlov’s dog, which as we know, was trained to eat not when it was hungry but when a bell rang, was a perverted animal."
Hannah Arendt, “Total Domination,” Portable Arendt, 119
