It has come to my attention that someone didn't care for this post and that's OK. I don't think that the mandate and the Auschwitz showers are all that dissimilar. The showers weren't originally meant for extermination and they were actually beneficial. The bathing process was streamlined and the poor folks probably entered willingly, because who doesn't like being clean? Their government, who I'm sure they funded with taxes, treated them like cattle instead of free people, until one day...