The main purpose the Sven Lindqvist's book, "Exterminate All the Brutes", is to inform people of the many things they don't already know, specifically about genocide, and to convey different messages based on these events and actions occurring throughout the history of our world. The main idea that he is trying to convey is that all humans have done is exterminate the brutes, or lower races, starting at the beginning of humankind and going all of the way to the Holocaust. They then try to justify this by backing their actions up with scientific theories and reasoning.

The key question the author is addressing is why people think that they are superior to others and believe that this superiority gives them the authority to exterminate all of those people who are not like them or of "lower" social standards.

The most important information in this book is spread...