Even the Nazis used religious background to determine who was Jewish

Evidence

In any case, the Jews are not a race as that word is used at the present time. It was only in the pseudoscience of the Nazis and those who were duped by them that the Jews were regarded as such. Zionism is concerned with the claims of what it asserts to be a nation, and has both the merits and the defects common to nationalist movements. If Zionism is racist, then so too are the various na­ tionalisms of Asia, Africa and elsewhere. — Bernard Lewis, From Babel to Dragomans, 1347 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Assimilation erases the Jewish difference Nazis then must bureaucratically reconstruct — Theodor W. Adorno, Max Horkheimer, Dialectic of Enlightenment, 164; Religious minority status compounded the government’s suspicion of Germans; Jews served as the accessible template for identifying enemies of Christian society. — Gil Anidjar, The Jew, the Arab: A History of the…, 204 (+4 more)

Broader Connections

• Jews were seen as a race only in Nazi pseudoscience. #complicates (0.80) — Bernard Lewis, From Babel to Dragomans, 1347