Sadism. That's what nazism was/is. It's no fun on the eastern front if there's no one left to torture. Hitler allegedly said "if Jews didn't exist we would have to invent them." The quote has been disputed, but it's telling that neo-nazi websites repeat it frequently, then follow it up with, "who would want to invent Jews?" The reality is: A lot of people who suffered severe physical, sexual and psychological abuse as children in places like rural Germany, modern Russia and Plano, Texas, are pathologically incapable of stopping themselves from taking their abuse out on others. That implies their ability to justify being monstrous sadists, on top of lying and gaslighting people into believing flat-earth theory or conspiracies about stolen elections. This is the kind of generational psycho-sexual abuse that leads to people applauding policies like "keep 'em [**racist terms**] alive so we can torture them to death."

Just want to say here, Frankl was trying to keep people alive to keep them alive. Inept as that may have been. There's a huge difference between that and getting your jollies by wanting to torture people... and only people who want to torture people would want to draw a similarity between those two things.