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FANATIC BELIEF: If you don't worship the god that we worship, we will kill you. This god might be called Germany, or Allah. Political murder is murder of the disbeliever, or disbelief itself.
The "Jew" for Hitler was like an infidel. In Hitler's imagination, Jews didn't "buy in" to the Nazi dream of German omnipotence.
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Fanatic believers worship a god, conceived as omnipotent. Bin Laden worshipped Allah. Hitler worshipped Germany. Nazism was a religious cult.
Fanatic believers find it intolerable contemplating the idea that people do not worship the god that they worship. Sometimes, they are so disturbed that they seek to kill nonbelievers.
Terrorism means killing nonbelievers. The Final Solution was a form of terrorism designed to kill infidels--Jews--who seemed to rebel against submitting to the god to which the Nazis themselves had submitted. The Holocaust meant getting others to submit to the god to which the Germans had submitted: bringing the non-believers back into the fold. Show the non-believer the penalty for doubting one's go.
Nazism was abject submission: obedience unto death. But what about those who did not submit to the god to which one had submitted oneself? “Death to the non-believers.”
The Final Solution compelled Jews to submit to the German god. They too would prostrate themselves before the nation—become obedient unto death.
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