ABSTRACT
As in so many of the Nazi regime's acts, it was the negative, destructive aspects of its racial doctrine which were pursued with most force. This was revealed most clearly in Nazi anti-semitism and found horrifying conclusion in the extermination camps of Himmler's SS. There was no clear consensus among National Socialists concerning the Jewish population, however (Fig. 3.1). Some Nazis saw the Jews in economic, not biological, terms, whereas
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the biological anti-semitism of Hitler and Himmler, in which Jews were seen as parasites, was uncompromising and often manic in its force. It was from the latter view, of course, that the policy of physical extermination sprang. To this extent, the Holocaust was a Hitler, not a Nazi, creation.
