"It's important to remember that the Holocaust did not start from gas chambers & murder.

The hatred slowly developed from ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice, through legal exclusion, escalating violence & dehumanization."

- @AuschwitzMuseum
The Nazis modeled their laws on Jim Crow and their scientific theories on eugenics. But Antisemitism in Europe has existed for millennia.

The first racial laws, 200 years before chattel slavery in Europe, specifically targeted Jews for genocide (in the inquisition).
A brilliant book to read on the creation of whiteness in the U.S. (that I just finished) is called "Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents" by @isabelwilkerson. https://www.npr.org/2020/08/04/898574852/its-more-than-racism-isabel-wilkerson-explains-america-s-caste-system
It's More Than Racism: Isabel Wilkerson Explains America's 'Caste' System

In Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents, the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist examines the laws and practices that created a bipolar caste system in the U.S. — and how the Nazis borrowed from it.

https://www.npr.org/2020/08/04/898574852/its-more-than-racism-isabel-wilkerson-explains-america-s-caste-system
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