How barbaric! Everyone knows God entrusted the care of His creations to us...so we could torture them to death to test strawberry-scented hemorrhoid cream.
"I asked the earth, and it answered me, 'I am not He;' and whatsoever are in it confessed the same. I asked the sea and the deeps, and the living creeping things, and they answered, 'We are not Thy God, seek above us.'... And I replied unto all the things which encompass the door of my flesh: 'Ye have told me of my God, that ye are not He; tell me something of Him.' And they cried out with a loud voice, 'He made us.' St. Augustine
They must be treayed with mercy for that reason.
Uh, you seem to have missed the point. The point was, while Hitler's administration was very kind toward animals, they were extremely cruel to human beings. (Which of course means that kindness to animals is not a predicter of behavior toward humans.)