Promoted for Hitting Labor Targets

At the camp-commandants’ meeting, a peer—not Höss—is promoted for consistently hitting forced-labor targets. A superior celebrates him by saying he receives fan mail from company CEOs.

The institution turns an atrocity into a performance dashboard: target achievement earns promotion, while corporate praise reinforces the incentive. Euphemistic metrics make exploitation easier to reward without naming its human cost.

This is not a benign metric accidentally drifting away from good intentions. The targets operationalize a deliberately evil forced-labor system; the Goodhart analogy is secondary to governance and value failure.