The Holocaust derived its meaning from a larger Nazi resettlement scheme

Evidence

It is similarly hard to come to grips with the fact that “the deportation of the Jews” (as the annihilation of European Jewry was officially defined), derived its meaning in Nazi thinking from the overall, audacious plan of wholesale Umsiedlung - the vision of a European continent in which well nigh everyone will be transported from their present, contingent site to the place where reason orders them to be (see Aly and Heim’s (1991) penetrating and thoroughly researched study). Or to accept that the extermination of the Jews (and Gypsies) was conceived in the framework of a total “cleansing operation” (which included also the mentally deficient, physically handicapped, ideologically deviant, and sexually unorthodox) by a state powerful enough, and sufficiently protected and immune against all opposition, to afford such total plans and to execute them without fear of effective dissent. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 444 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: The ethnic cleansing of Germans traced causality back to Nazi resettlement crimes — Andrew Demshuk, The Lost German East: Forced Migration…, 1625; Nazi genocide of Jews was framed as deportation within a continental resettlement plan — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 444; The Holocaust extended colonial logic to Jews as a colonizable species (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Nazi genocide of Jews was framed as deportation within a continental resettlement plan #expands (0.93) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 444