Holocaust death rates tracked Nazi control, not local antisemitism levels.

Evidence

Yet ultimately the number of Polish Jews murdered by the Nazis, for example, had more to do with the Nazis’ control over the country and their animus against Eastern Jews than Polish antipathy to the Jewish minority. … As was the case in other countries in the Nazi era, personal antisemitism was not necessarily incompatible with rescue and help towards the persecuted Jews. Where the Nazis were particularly successful in stirring up sections of the local population, such as in Lithuania in 1941, it was not necessarily based on past traditions (Lithuania had largely avoided pogroms in the late czarist era) but as a result of the brutality of the previous Soviet occupation and the ability of the Nazis and local extreme nationalists to blame Bolshevism on the Jews. Alternatively, those countries that helped to save the Jews, such as Denmark, Italy, and Romania in the latter part of the war did not do it necessarily out of pro-Jewish sentiment but more as a way of asserting their own national dignity, having in other ways been humiliated by Nazi Germany. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 512

Categorization

• XREF: Qualifies the vault’s treatment of genocide and racial ideology causation used in Black Marxism and Islamophobia works. — connects to: Antisemitism history explains the victims, not the Holocaust’s criminal nature.; Antisemitism explains who was killed, not why genocide happened; The Holocaust’s difference from prior Jew-hatred lies in the crime itself, not the victims (+7 more)

Broader Connections

• Antisemitism explains who was killed, not why genocide happened #corroborates (0.90)
• Antisemitic beliefs did not predict who would refuse to participate in the Holocaust #corroborates (0.90)
• Antisemitism history explains the victims, not the Holocaust’s criminal nature. #corroborates (0.85)
• The Holocaust’s difference from prior Jew-hatred lies in the crime itself, not the victims #corroborates (0.85)
• The Holocaust required neutralizing popular attitudes, not mobilizing them #corroborates (0.85) — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 522
• The Holocaust’s crime type is explained by something other than antisemitism. #expands (0.85)
• The Holocaust was not the logical culmination of prior antisemitism #corroborates (0.80)
• Genocides are top-down state-organized affairs, not spontaneous outbreaks #expands (0.80)
• The Holocaust should not define what antisemitism across history looks like #corroborates (0.70) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 517