Germans believed Jews’ power and capacity to cause harm was colossal.

Evidence

More generally, “The prevailing general image of the Jews held them to be malevolent, powerful, and dangerous… . The danger that they posed, their capacity to inflict harm, was believed by Germans to be colossal” (Goldhagen, 1996, pp. 64–65). — Leonard S. Newman and Ralph Erber (eds.), Understanding Genocide, 498

Categorization

• XREF: This is the sharpest available textual support for the reader’s sought bridge: the out-group is hated in proportion to its imagined power, not its weakness — compare Glick on envied high-competence out-groups. — connects to: Visible success made Jews appear capable of causing Germany’s economic woes — Leonard S. Newman and Ralph Erber (eds.), Understanding Genocide: The Social…, 798; Antisemitic propaganda accused Jews of malicious power and capacity to inflict harm. — Leonard S. Newman and Ralph Erber (eds.), Understanding Genocide: The Social…, 498; The delusion of existing Jewish world domination anchored the dream of German dominion (+1 more)
• SHARE: Worth sending to anyone working on the competence-threat literature; a single quote that flips the ‘victims are weak’ assumption.

Broader Connections

• Antisemitic propaganda accused Jews of malicious power and capacity to inflict harm. #corroborates (0.95) — Leonard S. Newman and Ralph Erber (eds.), Understanding Genocide, 498
• The delusion of existing Jewish world domination anchored the dream of German dominion #expands (0.85)
• Nazis modeled German world rule on the imagined Jewish global conspiracy #expands (0.80) — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 842