Nazi genocide extended modernity’s utopian logic rather than deviating from it.

Evidence

Indeed, one must agree with Detlev Peukert that National Socialism merely “pushed the Utopian belief in all-embracing ‘scientific’ final solutions of social problems to the ultimate logical extreme”. The determination and the freedom to go “all the way” and reach the ultimate was Hitler’s, yet the logic was construed, legitimized, and supplied by modernity. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 400

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to vault-wide claims about modernity’s dark side, industrial rationality and bureaucracy enabling genocide (Frankfurt School’s instrumental reason material).
• DEEPTHINKING: Dense claim that the Holocaust’s horror does not exempt modernity but is its logical terminus — inverts the standard framing of Nazism as irrational rupture.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 400