Popular hatred was insufficient to drive the Holocaust

Evidence

According to the widely shared opinion of the historians, this did not happen. In spite of the enormous resources devoted by the Nazi regime to racist propaganda, the concentrated effort of Nazi education, and the real threat of terror against resistance to racist practices, the popular acceptance of the racist programme (and particularly of its ultimate logical consequences) stopped well short of the level an emotion-led extermination would require. As if a further proof was needed, this fact demonstrates once again the absence of continuity or natural progression between heterophobia or contestant enmity and racism. Those Nazi leaders who hoped to capitalize on the diffuse resentment of the Jews to obtain popular support for the racist policy of extermination were soon forced to realize their mistake. — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 212

Categorization

• XREF: Separates ordinary hatred/heterophobia from racism as a distinct technology — a distinction Islamophobia readings will need to preserve rather than conflate. — connects to: Antisemitism acted as a catalyst for Nazi rule, world war, and genocide; Intense Nazi indoctrination failed to override conventional, nonracial loyalties; Prejudice is neither necessary nor sufficient for genocide — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 702 (+9 more)
• SHARE: Sarah Gordon and the Nazi’s own internal report (cited at [217]) are a strong counter-evidence package for anyone teaching genocide or antisemitism.

Related

• Antisemitism acted as a catalyst for Nazi rule, world war, and genocide (similarity 0.88)
• Intense Nazi indoctrination failed to override conventional, nonracial loyalties (similarity 0.88)
• Popular antisemitism contributed to the Holocaust chiefly through induced apathy. (similarity 0.85)
• German popular antisemitism was weaker than in several other European countries. (similarity 0.84)
• The Holocaust required neutralizing popular attitudes, not mobilizing them (similarity 0.84)
• Traditional antisemitism negatively correlates with willingness to perpetrate genocide (similarity 0.84)
• Prejudice is neither necessary nor sufficient for genocide (similarity 0.83)
• Nazi ideology encompassed antisemitic views that blamed Germans rather than Jews (similarity 0.81)
• Heterophobia and boundary anxieties do not directly cause genocide. (similarity 0.81)
• Holocaust perpetrators were ordinary citizens acting without personal anti-Jewish resentment. (similarity 0.80)
• Hate propaganda alone cannot socially isolate a target group (similarity 0.80)
• Majority ambivalence toward Jews, not indifference, enabled genocide (similarity 0.80)
• Holocaust death rates tracked Nazi control, not local antisemitism levels. (similarity 0.79)
• Antisemitism was added to Pan-German program rather than foundational to it (similarity 0.79)
• The commonsense antisemitism-explains-Holocaust causal link collapses under scrutiny. (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• The Holocaust required neutralizing popular attitudes, not mobilizing them #corroborates (0.95) — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 522
• Traditional antisemitism negatively correlates with willingness to perpetrate genocide #corroborates (0.75) — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 521