Dehumanization laid the foundation for the Nazi genocidal mission

Evidence

The Nazi regime carried dehumanization to the ultimate extreme (Wistrich, 2010). This campaign, applied with a vengeance, laid the foundation for the national genocidal mission. Jewish people were derogated as a genetically inferior race that had to be eradicated from society. They were segregated in ghettos where they were denied any rights or dignity. The Nazis converted the Star of David to a symbol of shame and portrayed Jews in demeaning caricatures as money-grubbing, scheming, and filthy. — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 2176

Categorization

• XREF: Genocide as endpoint of dehumanization connects to the Frankfurt School vault material on fascism enabled by prior dehumanizing ideology.
• DEFINE: Shows how symbols (Star of David) get repurposed as shame-markers in the disengagement process.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement: How People Do Harm…, 2176