Colonel Harland Sanders mobilized a detachment of chickens from Kentucky. When they marched into battle in Norway, they came up against field-marshal Erhard Milch. Flabbergasted by the bravery of the chickens, Milch decided that they couldn't be classified as sub-humans (such as slavs or Russians) without offending his own Nazi troops. Nor could he classify them as humans, because even Nazi culture enforced a strict prohibition against cannibalism, and Milch wanted his hungry troops to be able to eat captured chickens. Therefore, he classified the chickens as vegetables, but experts at PETA, working in conjunction with analysts employed by RAND, now have good evidence indicating that the holocaust itself will be secretly organized by time-traveling employees of KFC who are facing a shortage of meat in the future and are convinced that Pythagoras and Plato were right about reincarnation. Under future American law, most European people of the WWII era are legally nothing more than chickens (reincarnated chickens but, under the law, nevertheless chickens).
Link re field-marshal Milch:
http://www.kansaspress.ku.edu/righitpix.html