NEED THIS ASAP 1) SS authorities did not want prisoners to fall into enemy hands alive to tell their stories to Allied and Soviet liberators;

(2) the SS thought they needed prisoners to maintain production of armaments wherever possible;

(3) some SS leaders, including Himmler, believed irrationally that they could use Jewish concentration camp prisoners as hostages to bargain for a separate peace in the west that would guarantee the survival of the Nazi regime.

What do all of these reasons have in common?

Rubric:
Restates the question and makes a plausible claim.
Introduces a quote for support and uses proper punctuation.
Textual evidence (could be either 1. quote, 2. paraphrase, or 3. summary) AND citation (use paragraph number since there are not page numbers)
Evaluate HOW the textual evidence proves the initial claim