Social exclusion of Jews made abstract stereotypes replace personal knowledge.

Evidence

Where the Nazis were most successful was in the depersonalization of the Jews. The more the Jew was forced out of social life, the more he seemed to fit the stereotypes of a propaganda which intensified, paradoxically, its campaign against ‘Jewry’ the fewer actual Jews there were in Germany itself. Depersonalization increased the already existent widespread indifference of German popular opinion and formed a vital stage between the archaic violence and the rationalized ‘assembly line’ annihilation of the death camps. — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 531

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines depersonalization as the stage between archaic violence and assembly-line annihilation — the key mechanism for how an abstract category replaces lived acquaintance.
• XREF: The paradox that propaganda intensifies as actual Jews vanish is directly transferable to how anti-Muslim discourse proliferates in societies with few Muslims. — connects to: Tribal antisemitism severed hatred of Jews from any actual experience of them; Hatred of Jews became detached from any specific Jewish deeds; Demonization of Jews stems from their modern ambiguous social role, not medieval memories — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 831 (+11 more)

Related

• Tribal antisemitism severed hatred of Jews from any actual experience of them (similarity 0.90)
• Society preferred unassimilated Jews precisely because their alienness fed its imagination (similarity 0.89)
• Social pariah status replaced civic exclusion wherever Jews gained civil rights (similarity 0.87)
• Social discrimination invented the abstracted figure of the Jew as a universal type (similarity 0.86)
• Propaganda struggled to override personal images of known Jews. (similarity 0.84)
• Demonization of Jews stems from their modern ambiguous social role, not medieval memories (similarity 0.81)
• Jews formed a state-defined group outside the class system (similarity 0.80)
• Hate propaganda alone cannot socially isolate a target group (similarity 0.79)
• Jewish emancipation removed visible markers of difference and so made Jews newly threatening (similarity 0.79)
• Chimerical images of Jewish power became dangerous public fears (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Propaganda struggled to override personal images of known Jews. #corroborates (0.92) — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 524