It would appear that Omer Bartov, the great scholar of the Holocaust, agrees with my theory that the Holocaust was a re-enactment of the First World War.
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In Murder in Our Midst,  Bartov notes that the Holocaust was the almost “perfect reenactment of the Great War,” with the important correction that “all the perpetrators were on one side and all the victims on the other.” Everything else was there: the barbed wire, the machine guns, the charred bodies, the gas, the uniforms, the military discipline, the barracks. “But this reenactment had the great advantage that it was totally safe for the guards.”
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KOENIGSBERG'S THEORY: Hitler created the Holocaust in order to subject Jews to the same treatment to which German soldiers had been subjected. The Jew in the Holocaust symbolized the German soldier—sent to suffer and to die by the German nation and its leaders. The Jew repeats the pathetic, abject condition of German soldiers in the First World War: conveyed to a distant location in box cars; hardly imagining that death would be their fate.

Like German soldiers, Jews were compelled to adopt a stance of absolute submission to the German nation-state. Jews symbolized the fate of the loyal German soldier whose body had been taken over by the nation state—to be used and abused as the nation and its leaders saw fit.
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