"The superhuman asking a subhuman for something superhuman..." is teh explanation that Arthur gave Simon when Arthur learned of Simon's experience, and Simon bought it. This depicts two things. First, the Jews opinions of themselves. A subhuman is defined as a lesser human or someone who is not quite human. The Jews see themselves as not important, or not even quite human, because that is what they have been fed their whole lives.
The second thing is the comparison that it makes. The Jews see themselves as dirt. They have even fallen into the brainwash just a little, and they view the German's, ironically, as superhumans. Usually superman carried a good connotation of a flying man in blue tights, but here it is a reference to the power they have, but use in the wrong way. the Germans are "super human" because there is not way for the Jews to stop them. The Jews are subhumans because they are looked down upon, almost to the point that they aren't even considered humans.
We like to think that this mindset is one of the past, but it has reoccurred multiple times in history. The American civil war was for the rights of the time's "subhumans". Even now there are cases of extreme racism where one group thinks of themselves a better than the other. It is even as minor as the "populars" discriminating against the "geeks", or the "rich" against the "poor". So, it comes down the the eyes of the person, are "super humans" really the super people? Or are the subhumans through "superhuman" tasks becoming the "supermen".
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