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From: joel@peora.UUCP (Joel Upchurch)
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> ->   Actually, the Adolph Hitler principle states that you should kill
> ->ten of "their" people for each one of "ours".  It didn't work for him
> 
> Don't credit Hitler with this policy, the Romans instituted it much earlier
> and that's how we got the word "decimate".

Actually decimate means kill one out of ten. Decimation was used by
Roman commanders on military units of the Roman Legions as a punishment.

I seem to vaguely recall that it was used against some units on the
German Frontier that revolted against Tiberius.

Against conquered people it was ever so much more profitable to sell
them into slavery.