Only the choice of victims, not the crime’s nature, derives from antisemitism history.

Evidence

This interpretation overlooks the essential discontinuity between even the most violent outbursts of premodern Judeophobia and the meticulously planned and executed operation called the Holocaust. It also glosses over the fact that - as Hannah Arendt pointed out long ago - only the choice of victims, not the nature of the crime, can be derived (if at all) from the history of antisemitism; indeed, it replaces the crucial issues of the nature of crime with the question of the unique features of Jews or Jewish-Gentile relations. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 369

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to Arendt’s own argument in other vault sources about the banality of evil and the novelty of the Holocaust as administrative crime. — connects to: Not all German killers internalized eliminationist anti-Semitism since many requested transfer. — Leonard S. Newman and Ralph Erber (eds.), Understanding Genocide: The Social…, 381
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 369