Nazis modeled German world rule on the imagined Jewish global conspiracy

Evidence

Nazi propaganda, in other words, discovered in “the supranational because intensely national Jew” the forerunner of the German master of the world and assured the masses that “the nations that have been the first to see through the Jew and have been the first to fight him are going to take his place in the domination of the world.” The delusion of an already existing Jewish world domination formed the basis for the illusion of future German world domination. This was what Himmler had in mind when he stated that “we owe the art of government to the Jews,” namely, to the Protocols which “the Führer [had] learned by heart.” Thus the Protocols presented world conquest as a practical possibility, implied that the whole affair was only a question of inspired or shrewd know-how, and that nobody stood in the way of a German victory over the entire world but a patently small people, the Jews, who ruled it without possessing instruments of violence—an easy opponent, therefore, once their secret was discovered and their method emulated on a larger scale. — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 842

Categorization

• DEFINE: Core mechanism for the rhetoric of the Other: the enemy’s presumed secret method becomes the template the movement copies, framing the foe as simultaneously omnipotent and easy to defeat.
• XREF: Directly scaffolds the Islamophobia field’s Orientalism texts — the construction of the Other as both all-powerful and crushable is a recurring colonial-rhetoric pattern.