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

[muriel_volestrangler]

91. You took one line about "racial traits" and wrote, several times, as if that was "race"

and that it meant the Nazi persecution was based on "religion, not race".

Nazis had claimed there were "racial traits" of Jews (and others, for that matter). But, when it came to defining someone as Jewish, they couldn't do it using those "traits" (because even if there is any difference on average, the variation inside "Jews", "Roma", "Aryans" etc. was more than the difference between groups). So they went to something they could list and quantify (religious practice of grandparents) and then used descent from that. By using descent, they were saying "it's not about your religion", so it didn't matter if the people under threat of the 1930s laws were observant Jews, agnostic, or even converted to Christianity. They were indeed claiming it was about race (see all the paragraphs surrounding the one you quoted), but that they thought the religion of grandparents was the best way of determining race.

I thought you had begun to understand this, but your most recent replies, in which you claim you have been misinterpreted, don't look like that now. You don't need apologies; it would help if you acknowledged that going from "racial traits" to "race" had been misleading.