The Nazis murdered six million Jewish men, women, and children. These were not members of a homogeneous culture.

They were Germans, Poles, Hungarians, Yugoslavian, Romanian, Bulgarian, Albanian, French and many many more, whose only shared characteristic was their Jewish religious beliefs.

There was, and in certain quarters still is, a public perception that Jews amassed fortunes and used their money to acquire political clout.

Hitler needed some way to unite the German nation behind some pretty harsh government so he gave them a scapegoat to fear and loathe, and he chose the Jews whom he personally detested to fill that role.

The concept of uniting a nation by giving them somebody to hate wasn't new, and it didn't matter who was chosen for the role, but it did help that they were already disliked and distrusted by many Germans.

No parallel then with anything pertinent to this thread.

Don T.