NAZISM AS SHARED PSYCHOSIS

Psychiatrists say that only individuals can be psychotic, and that when an entire society embraces bizarre thoughts,  and engages in monumentally destructive  forms of behavior, you can't call thesethe thoughts and forms of behavior psychotic--because they"fit in" with a cultural norm.

However, reading the transcript of one of  Joseph Goebbels'  pronouncements (see below), it's obvious that the phrase "psychotic delusion" is an accurate description of his thinking. 

Goebbels--and many other Germans--put their money where their mouths were. They brought their ideas into the world. Nazism enacted a collective psychotic fantasy.

Richard Koenigsberg
Joseph Goebbels, essay of November 16, 1941.
“The Jews are Guilty”
“Every Jew is our enemy in this historic struggle, whether he vegetates in a Polish ghetto or carries on his parasitic existence in Berlin or Hamburg or blows the trumpets of war in New York or Washington. All Jews by virtue of their birth and their race are part of an international conspiracy against National Socialist Germany. They want its defeat and annihilation, and do all in their power to bring it about.”
The Holocaust took the lives of
approximately 5,962,129 Jews.