"Nazis defined Jews by their religion (Judaism), and not by the supposed racial traits"

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32. They were not the Nuremberg Religious Laws, they were the Nuremberg RACE Laws

I have no clue why that one part erroneously says what it says, but you are delving straight into anti-Semitic tropes.

You have been definitively proved to be in error and should pull this OP.



https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2022/feb/01/whoopi-goldberg/whoopi-goldberg-wrongly-claims-holocaust-was-not-a/

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"Racism was central to Nazi ideology," the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum responded in a tweet as Goldberg’s statement garnered attention online. "Jews were not defined by religion, but by race. Nazi racist beliefs fueled genocide and mass murder."

The Auschwitz Memorial, meanwhile, tagged Goldberg in a tweet advertising its seven-chapter online course on the history of the Holocaust, in which the Nazis murdered some 6 million Jews.

Later that night, Goldberg posted an apology on Twitter that quoted from Jonathan Greenblatt, the CEO of the Anti-Defamation League, who had tweeted that the Holocaust "was about the Nazi’s systematic annihilation of the Jewish people — who they deemed to be an inferior race."

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Nazi ideology viewed Jews as an inferior race

Racism toward Jews and other groups drove the Nazis’ ideology, policies, and mass murder of Jews in concentration camps and elsewhere, according to the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum.

"Nazi antisemitism rested completely on the argument that they are not people like you Germans," said Peter Hayes, a professor emeritus of history and German at Northwestern University. "They are implacably and by inheritance different and hostile, and therefore they have to be ‘removed,’ one way or another."

Nazi theories of race held that Germans and other people of Indo-European descent belonged to a superior group called the "Aryan" race. The Nazi heirarchy of races positioned the Aryans at the top, Black people at the bottom and everyone else on a scale in between, Hayes said.

Jewish people were branded as the most dangerous threat to the Aryan race, Hayes said. They were considered conniving, hate-filled, parasitic, and capable of mobilizing the other races.

Nazi leader Adolf Hitler, in particular, saw Jewish people as "subhuman" entities who threatened all other races by spreading subversive ideas like liberalism and Marxism, and by mixing with other races through marriage and sexual relations, said Christopher Browning, a professor emeritus of history at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

"For Hitler, all history was a race struggle," Browning said.

Hitler described Jews as a race — not a religion — in "Mein Kampf," the autobiographical political manifesto that charted his ideology and his vision for the future of Germany. One key chapter comparing the races was titled "Nation and Race."

"Hitler was very explicit about this, and always said very clearly that being Jewish had nothing to do with religious affiliation or cultural background, but was entirely physical," Hett said.

The Nazis went to great lengths to try to prove through pseudoscience that Jewish people had such physical markers, even devoting an office of the government to such work, Hett said.

They also implemented the Nuremberg Race Laws, which provided the legal framework for the systematic persecution of Jews, according to the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum.